GAU
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of English maximum credible accident.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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- Initialism of größter anzunehmender Unfall (“worst possible or foreseeable accident”): the worst possible accident considered for controlling, engineering, or planning when designing something such as a nuclear or industrial plant
- (figurative) worst case scenario
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Auslegungsstörfall on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de