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Fallout is defined as the consequence or result of something, or radioactive particles from a nuclear explosion.

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When you get a divorce and, as a result, your friends have to choose sides and you are lonely, these are examples of the fallout of the divorce.
When a nuclear bomb is dropped on a city, the radioactive particles that remain in the air are an example of the fallout.

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See fallout in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

☆ the descent to earth of radioactive particles, as after a nuclear explosion
☆ these particles
whatever comes as an incidental consequence

See fallout in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The slow descent of minute particles of debris in the atmosphere following an explosion, especially the descent of radioactive debris after a nuclear explosion.
b. The particles that descend in this fashion.
An incidental result or side effect: “Other social trends also have psychiatric fallout, and the people who suffer can't afford treatment” (Martha Farnsworth Riche).

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