Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

three mile island

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables
three- mile is-land
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A nuclear power plant located on the island; the site of a nuclear accident in 1979.

name

A nuclear reactor core partial meltdown in 1979, at the nuclear power plant's reactor unit 2

noun

An informal unit of measurement for a nuclear disaster, equivalent to that of the incident in 1979 in Pennsylvania

Inflected Forms

Three Mile Islands (plural)

Derived Forms

TMI

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What does three mile island mean?
An island of Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on Lake Frederick, Susquehanna River; the site of a nuclear power plant accident in 1979.

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