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UK
/ɛksplˈəʊʒən/
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[ US /ɪksˈpɫoʊʒən/ ]
[ US /ɪksˈpɫoʊʒən/ ]
NOUN
- the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
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the noise caused by an explosion
the explosion was heard a mile away - a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
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the act of exploding or bursting
the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children
the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft - a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
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a sudden great increase
the information explosion
the population explosion -
a sudden outburst
an explosion of laughter
an explosion of rage
How To Use explosion In A Sentence
- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms. Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release
- Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake.
- An explosion at a chemical plant has left one worker dead and four injured.
- the explosion was heard a mile away
- Falling masonry, backdrafts and explosions are all very real dangers facing a firefighter outside the training room.
- The crab nebula is the remnant from a supernova explosion 1054. High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmos
- Also called ionized (or charged) gas, plasma can be as common as in fluorescent light bulbs or exotic in the extreme, as a thermonuclear explosion. India eNews
- Fry emerged from the incident without a scratch, but the concussion of the explosion was felt some 2,000 feet away, at the starting line.
- The explosion occurred at 5.30 a.m.
- After a great many loud explosions, the race began.
