Explosion

Quick meaning: Explosion is a noun meaning A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.

Meaning

A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.

More Meanings

1. The sound of an explosion.
2. A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.

Example Sentences

A man was injured by an explosion caused by drilling into a missed shot at the Mendota mine above Silver Plume, Colo.

Her image is supposedly rebellious, but she looks scrubbed and healthy, with an explosion of blonde hair and generous curves shoved into too-tight clothing.

Meteorologists describe this medieval warm epoch as the ‘Little Optimum’, and they cite it as the explanation of such phenomena as the Viking explosion into Russia, France, Iceland, and the northwestern Atlantic.

As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

Word Forms

• explosions

Synonyms for explosion

Depending on context, synonyms include bang, blast, boom, burst, detonation, eruption.

Antonyms for explosion

Common opposites include implosion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include burst, detonation, plosion, explosive, exploding, blasted.

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