explosion
ex·plo·sion (ek splō′z̸hən, ik-)
noun
- an exploding; esp., a blowing up, or bursting with a loud noise; detonation
- the noise made by exploding
- a noisy outburst; loud breaking forth an explosion of wrath
- a sudden, rapid, and widespread increase a population explosion
- Phonet. plosion
Etymology: L explosio < pp. of explodere: see explode
explosion
n.
The act of blowing up
detonation, blast, burst, discharge, blowout, blowup, concussion, eruption, percussion, combustion, outburst, firing, ignition, backfire, fulmination, pop. A loud noise
Converse of subject
- injure: Over a hundred people were killed and many injured by the explosion.
Converse of object
- rip: In April 1986, an explosion ripped through reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
- muffle: There had been a ' muffled explosion ' in one of the nearby Underground tunnels, and they were evacuating.
- trigger: Even a radio is capable of triggering an explosion in hazardous conditions.
- ensue: The ensuing explosion then caused fires to start in two nearby tanks, with a combined capacity of around 700,000 liters.
- deafen: Suddenly, just in front of me, the air was split by two deafening explosions in rapid succession.
Adjective modifier
- Cambrian: About 540 million years ago the so-called Cambrian explosion took place.
- nuclear: This was a clear call for the two South Asian nations not to conduct any more nuclear explosions.
- combinatorial: He described problems with workflows and ontologies and the " Combinatorial Explosion " .
- loud: There was a loud bright explosion inside the Lincoln.
- volcanic: They are passed off as fable or reduced to the status of mistaken accounts of volcanic explosions in the Aegean.
- thermonuclear: In fact they result from a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star in a close binary system.
Modifies a noun
- suppression: This includes barriers for intrinsically safe circuits, control systems of explosion suppression, inerting and decoupling systems.
- hazard: Also, the fuel source should be kept downwind of the aircraft's exhaust to reduce the explosion hazard.
Noun used with modifier
- supernova: Pulsars are neutron stars formed in the collapse of massive stars in supernova explosions.
- bomb: The incident is linked to the nail bomb explosion in Brixton a week earlier.
- mid-air: An investigation Commission was set up in Barbados to determine, among other things, what caused the mid-air explosion of that plane.
- landmine: The landmine explosion was the worst single blow to the Regiment since its formation in 1970.
- punk: Wire were always meant to be the intellectual end of the punk explosion.
- methane: Last July, more than 30 were killed in a methane explosion in Donetsk region, the heart of Ukraine's coal-producing area.
Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion I fancy you would feel much the same if you were struck by lightning. I knew immediately that I was hit, but because of that seeming bang and flash, I thought it was a rifle nearby that had gone off accidentallyand shot me.
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
Like being the captain of a mine-sweeper, if you do your job well, nobody notices.If you don't, there's a hell of an explosion.
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