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py⋅ro⋅tech⋅nics

  [pahy-ruh-tek-niks]
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–noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
1. the art of making fireworks.
2. the use of fireworks for display, military purposes, etc.
3. a display of fireworks.
4. a brilliant or sensational display, as of rhetoric or musicianship.
5. Military. ammunition containing chemicals for producing smoke or light, as for signaling, illuminating, or screening.
Also, py⋅ro⋅tech⋅ny (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1710–20; see pyrotechnic, -ics
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py·ro·tech·nics   (pī'rə-těk'nĭks)   
n.   (used with a sing. verb)

  1. The art of manufacturing or setting off fireworks. Also called pyrotechny.

  2. A fireworks display.

  3. A brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.

py'ro·tech'nist n.
py·ro·tech·ny   (pī'rə-těk'nē)   
n.  See pyrotechnics.

[New Latin pyrotechnia : Greek puro-, pyro- + Greek tekhnē, craft; see technique.]
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