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megadeath

/ˈmeɡ.ə.deθ/

Traduction: Nom désignant la mort d'un million de personnes, souvent utilisé comme unité de mesure dans les discussions sur la guerre nucléaire ou les catastrophes de grande ampleur.

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noun

/ˈmeɡ.ə.deθ/C2formal
  • frNom désignant la mort d'un million de personnes, souvent utilisé comme unité de mesure dans les discussions sur la guerre nucléaire ou les catastrophes de grande ampleur.

A noun referring to the death of one million people, often used as a unit of measurement in discussions of nuclear warfare or large-scale disasters.

  1. Unit of mass casualtiesC2formalpolitical

    The death of one million people, used as a measure of potential or hypothetical deaths, especially in the context of nuclear warfare or large-scale disasters.

    frmégamort

    • The scenario predicted up to fifty megadeaths from a full-scale nuclear exchange.
    • Analysts discussed the potential megadeath toll of a global pandemic.
    • The term 'megadeath' was coined to conceptualize catastrophic human loss.
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