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explosion

[ik-sploh-zhuhn]

noun

an act or instance of exploding; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler (opposed to 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.

the burning of the mixture of fuel and air in an internal-combustion engine.

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Phonetics. plosion.

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Origin:
1615–25; < Latin explōsiōn- (stem of explōsiō), equivalent to explōs(us) driven off by clapping (past participle of explōdere to explode) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

post·ex·plo·sion, adjective

pre·ex·plo·sion, noun

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Example Sentences

Witnesses said a huge explosion sent billows of smoke over the area and spread panic.

The companies and federal authorities have not yet determined what caused the explosion or why a device known as a.

There are many reasons for the information explosion.

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Witnesses said a huge explosion sent billows of smoke over the area and spread panic.

The companies and federal authorities have not yet determined what caused the explosion or why a device known as a.

There are many reasons for the information explosion.

Pugh added that descriptions of the explosion suggest the meteor was rocky and likely sprayed debris over several square miles.

Distant explosion visible to the naked eye breaks the mold with double jet.

The terrific noise it emitted was an explosion which made it erupt several fragments of volcanic materials.

They'll benefit from fall and winter rains and produce an explosion of bloom in springtime.

Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion so strange they don't even know what to call it.

The explosion was the second major setback for the program in recent months.

Third, he admits that there might also be a bit of an explosion in administrators and service personnel.

The explosion demolished four buildings and shattered windows in a large area.

Even the site of the explosion seems to be bursting with life.

The explosion appears to have been caused by a buildup of methane.

As he and his crew navigated through the darkness, a fiery explosion lit up the skyline.

We have now lost too many acres not to recognize an exponential explosion of plants.

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of interest in serious amateur rocketry.

Officials say the explosion was caused by an electrical malfunction.

The rise of the cloud has also created an explosion of other consumer-focused web services.

No supervolcano has erupted in recorded human history, but geologists have pieced together what an explosion must have been like.

The heat of the explosion will instantly evaporate any water.

The instant the hot sphere reaches the critical temperature is marked an explosion of tiny bubbles.

The cause of more untenured instructors, and thus the ratio of untenured-to-tenured, is the explosion in college enrollment.

The fire was put out by drenching the reactor's core with water, a risky operation that could have caused a hydrogen explosion.

But the explosion was also unexpectedly sideways, causing the collapse of the fractured north side of the volcano.

The gas cloud radiating from the source of one burst carried with it the telltale by-products of a supernova explosion.

The explosion was soon followed by a lava flow erupted from the widened central vent.

The explosion of social media should be reserved for social and not professional correspondence.

The explosion in ou atmosphere of a rocket carrying a tons of radioactive waste would be an environmental catastrophe.

Even at half its capacity, the bomb resulted in by far the largest man-made explosion ever.

Yes, the explosion of health related schools seems to have brought up a lot of problems.

The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information.

The ash content of the explosion is clearly visible.

Let's remember that serious intellectuals appeared on national television shows all the time back before the cable explosion.

There seems to be an explosion of concern over animal welfare these days.

The microbarographs measured changes in atmospheric pressure, and were particularly well-suited to detecting a nuclear explosion.

But one of the things that makes that so difficult to do is the explosion of non-tenure, full-time positions on campuses.

China has, if in an unorthodox manner eliminated its population explosion.

Fragments of the new material are blown into the target by the missile's explosion.

The confirmation kicked off an explosion in extrasolar planet hunting.

The explosion filled the mine with toxic levels of carbon monoxide.

The fire started through the explosion of a lamp in the apartments.

Computer specialists aren't the only ones who stand to benefit from the technology explosion at university presses.

Now an explosion at a nuclear power plant-and the release of radioactive material-has added.

Thirty-three coal miners perished early today in a terrific explosion in a mine four miles from its entrance.

The mix of moonlight, tide, and temperature triggers an extraordinary explosion of life in these waters.

The military looks to retrofit buildings in combat zones with a wallpaperlike tape that blocks flying debris during an explosion.

There has been a mini explosion of colorful subtropical foliage plants in recent years, but our favorite is a veteran player.

Library books have been crowding out users since the publishing explosion of the mid-20th century.

Beginning with the explosion of local search and local.

The volcano had been dormant for centuries and didn't give any warnings of the catastrophic explosion to come.

But it doesn't prepare you for the explosion of potted plants that greet you once you move into the central courtyard.

The biggest shift in the media landscape post-9/11 was the explosion of blogs and online citizen journalists.

With the explosion of technology, business now moves at a faster pace than ever before.

The presidential suite is an explosion of gold, purple, marble and.

One of the surviving workers of the gulf oil spill disaster recounts the heartbreaking events after the explosion on the rig.

The size of the proto-solar system and its distance from the explosion determine how much of that radioactive ejecta mingles in.

Nobody has been hurt and the damage has been minor, but the risk of a huge explosion is great.

The resulting explosion and fires killed four crew members.

The atmospheric effects of what was almost certainly an explosion estimated at about five miles.

Aluminum powder was also used to accelerate the explosion and added to the ferocity of the blaze, officials said.

Immigration is one reason for the explosion of ethnic enclaves.

Within a few million years of the impact the fossil record shows an explosion in mammalian diversity.

Further they had a rather large explosion that damaged our house two doors away and destroyed the house closest.

Two days later there was a second explosion that completely collapsed the rig and sent it sinking to the ocean floor.

With the explosion of e-mails and blogs from the front, a huge amount of battlefield information is now freely available.

We are not part of the long term population explosion.

But these hiccups make for good reading, as is clear from the explosion of books on the subject.

They used a series of tightly wound, current-carrying metal coils that are rapidly compressed by an explosion.

Like an elephant in a minefield, every step it takes sets off an explosion and a shower of mud.

Two different teams of astronomers studied a brief but powerful flash of light, called a gamma-ray burst, from the star explosion.

He dropped it, there was an invisible, inaudible explosion of neutrons but everybody knew.

The subsequent explosion then occurs as normal and the movement is converted to electricity and siphoned-off.

Being smacked upside the head by multiple generation gaps and an explosion of technological.

But the explosion in the issuance of cat bonds expected by some has failed to materialise.

If the overheating core was not cooled, it could meltdown and cause a thermal explosion that would doom the ship.

CO2 is not the cause of climate change, our population explosion is.

First, the explosion in cheap and powerful prototyping tools, which have become easier to use by non-engineers.

Instead there was an explosion of large drinking dens.

When applied to steel, the polymer spreads out the shock of an explosion and helps prevent impacted material from shattering.

If the explosion in monitoring is any indication, employers are getting the message.

Constantly improving technology has led to an explosion of corporate data.

Rock has tremendous compressive strength, so an explosion from outside has relatively little effect.

Then stand back and wait for the inevitable explosion.

One challenge is how to manage operations in light of the explosion in computer power.

Almost every change is a revolution, every expansion an explosion.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

explosion (ɪkˈspləʊʒən)

—n
1.	the act or an instance of exploding
2.	Compare implosion a violent release of energy resulting from a rapid chemical or nuclear reaction, esp one that produces a shock wave, loud noise, heat, and light
3.	a sudden or violent outburst of activity, noise, emotion, etc
4.	a rapid increase, esp in a population
5.	phonetics another word for plosion

[C17: from Latin explōsiō, from explōdere to explode]

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Word Origin & History

explosion

1623, from Fr. explosion, from L. explosionem (nom. explosio), from explodere "drive out by clapping" (see explode for origin and sense evolution). Sense of "rapid increase or development" is first attested 1953. Explosive (n.) first attested 1874.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

explosion

(ĭk-splō'zhən) Pronunciation Key
A violent blowing apart or bursting caused by energy released from a very fast chemical reaction, a nuclear reaction, or the escape of gases under pressure.

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