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View synonyms for detonator

detonator

[ det-n-ey-ter ]

noun

  1. a device, as a percussion cap, used to make another substance explode.
  2. something that explodes.


detonator

/ ˈdɛtəˌneɪtə /

noun

  1. a small amount of explosive, as in a percussion cap, used to initiate a larger explosion
  2. a device, such as an electrical generator, used to set off an explosion from a distance
  3. a substance or object that explodes or is capable of exploding


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Word History and Origins

Origin of detonator1

First recorded in 1815–25; detonate + -or 2

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Example Sentences

I was the one to trigger the detonator, and for that I take full responsibility.

“I press the detonator and I am the only one responsible,” Trierweiler writes of the tweet, as excerpted Wednesday in Le Monde.

After agents went into the van and confirmed that the detonator had been activated, they arrested him.

I like to say that I was like a bomb but the detonator was missing.

Perhaps a ceramic detonator, disguised as a perfectly legal 3-oz.

Anything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.

It looked as if Charnock was putting in the dynamite, and Festing hoped he would be careful with the detonator.

But if it ever came down to it I should be able to knock down an airplane, gum up the works on a fusing detonator, maybe even—.

Mercury fulminate is more often employed in the detonator, and is prepared from mercury, alcohol, and nitric acid.

The most tremendous explosives refuse to explode unless some detonator like fulminate of mercury is set off first.

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