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What (who) is SCRAM - definition
Scram
![NS ''Savannah'']]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NS Savannah SCRAM MD1.jpg?width=200 "NS ''Savannah'']]")
![[[Norman Hilberry]] (left) and [[Leó Szilárd]] at Stagg Field, site of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain-reaction.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Szilard and Hilberry.jpg?width=200 "[[Norman Hilberry]] (left) and [[Leó Szilárd]] at Stagg Field, site of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain-reaction.")
EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR
Scram switch; SCRAM; Scramming; Trip, reactor; Safety Cut Rope Ax Man; АЗ-5; A3-5; AZ5 button; Reactor scram
A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor effected by immediately terminating the fission reaction. It is also the name that is given to the manually operated kill switch that initiates the shutdown.
scram
EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR
Scram switch; SCRAM; Scramming; Trip, reactor; Safety Cut Rope Ax Man; АЗ-5; A3-5; AZ5 button; Reactor scram
to drag your fingernails across someone's skin (usually their face) in an effort to inflict pain and at least leave thick pink weals. not quite the same as to scratch. tended to be a schoolkid thing.
miss miss! tell her, she scrammed me!
miss miss! tell her, she scrammed me!
scram
EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR
Scram switch; SCRAM; Scramming; Trip, reactor; Safety Cut Rope Ax Man; АЗ-5; A3-5; AZ5 button; Reactor scram
¦ verb (scrams, scramming, scrammed) informal go away or leave quickly.
Origin
early 20th cent.: prob. from scramble.
Examples of use of SCRAM
1. Scram!" The doctor grabbed his bag and ran toward the door.
2. Official: the booking sheet detailing Lindsay‘s latest arrest The SCRAM (secure continuous remote alcohol monitoring device) checks the alcohol in sweat and relays readings to a testing company.
3. "It‘s pretty blunt." Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel‘s Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri‘s proud parents: "Why didn‘t you just go back to your ancestors‘ language, and call the kid ‘Scram Cruise‘?" A Cruise family spokesman said last week that Suri has its origins in ancient Hebrew, as a variant on Sarah, the biblical matriarch.
4. Souter, just as the politicos have the right to say to those they don‘t want –– here Souter used a word you don‘t hear much at the court –– "scram." "For political reasons, they‘re saying: ‘We don‘t like you,‘ " Souter added, noting that he was having trouble finding a constitutional problem with that.
5. Scroll down for more Paris Hilton on the night she was pulled over by police for a driving violation According to legal papers, the prosecution has also requested that Paris should "not to consume any alcohol for a continuous period of '0 days and that she should be to be monitored for alcohol consumption... by use of a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) device at her expense." The device takes blood/alcohol readings and will show if she has been out drinking.