Meltdown is 1) a situation in which an industry, economy, etc., that is badly affected by a lot of problems within a short period of time (e.g., extremely dangerous situation in a nuclear power station in which the nuclear fuel becomes very hot and melts through its container and escapes into the environment); 2) a hardware vulnerability affecting Intel x86 microprocessors and some ARM-based microprocessors.
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