Usually means: Emergency shutdown of a reactor.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. scram: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scram: Merriam-Webster
  3. scram: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scram: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scram: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scram: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scram, scram: Wordnik
  8. scram: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SCRAM, scram: Wiktionary
  10. scram: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scram: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scram: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scram: Dictionary.com
  14. scram: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scram: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SCRAM, Scram (disambiguation), Scram (video game), Scram, Scram: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. scram: Rhymezone
  18. SCRAM, Scram: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. scram: FreeDictionary.org
  20. scram: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scram: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scram: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCRAM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scram: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scram, scram: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scram: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Scram: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See scrammed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.
verb:  (transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
noun:  (also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
noun:  The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
verb:  (transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
verb:  (transitive, US, mining, archaic) To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.
noun:  (Derbyshire, Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
noun:  (US, mining, archaic) A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.
verb:  Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.
verb:  To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of scram [(MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.]
verb:  Alternative letter-case form of scram [(intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.]

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