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- DictionaryEx·plo·sion/ikˈsplōZH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb.
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1. : the act or an instance of exploding. injured in a laboratory explosion. 2. : a large-scale, rapid, or spectacular expansion or bursting out or forth. the explosion of suburbia. an explosion of red hair. 3. : the release of occluded breath that occurs in one kind of articulation of stop consonants.
EXPLOSION definition: 1. the fact of something such as a bomb exploding: 2. a sudden strong expression of emotion: 3. a…. Learn more.
noun. an act or instance of exploding; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler ( implosion ). the noise itself: The loud explosion woke them. a violent outburst, as of laughter or anger. a sudden, rapid, or great increase: a population explosion.
An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.
EXPLOSION meaning: 1. the fact of something such as a bomb exploding: 2. a sudden strong expression of emotion: 3. a…. Learn more.
An explosion is a sudden catastrophic release of energy, causing a pressure wave. An explosion happens when a free gas expands very quickly, because of a chemical reaction that produces a gas, or because a container of pressurized gas ruptures.
Definitions of explosion. noun. the act of exploding or bursting. “the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children”. synonyms: burst. see more. the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something. noun. a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction.
explosion. [countable, uncountable] the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something such as a bomb exploding; the act of deliberately causing something to explode.
EXPLOSION meaning: 1. the action of something such as a bomb exploding: 2. a sudden large increase in the amount of…. Learn more.
See synonyms for explosion on Thesaurus.com noun an act or instance of exploding ; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler (opposed to implosion ).