Pyrotechny

Quick meaning: Pyrotechny is a noun meaning The manufacture and use of fireworks.

Meaning

The manufacture and use of fireworks.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Impressive, dazzling or virtuosic display.
2. The use of fire in chemistry and metallurgy.
3. (obsolete) The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.

Example Sentences

But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps there are many degrees of frailty.

‘[…] I came to the conclusion that this demonstration of our skill in the art of pyrotechny was valuable, if only because it impressed upon them ... the superiority of the British.... […]’

Gunpowder and the compositions of pyrotechny are the means used, in modern warfare, to propel projectiles, explode mines, destroy ships and buildings, and furnish light and signals for the operations of an army at night.

It was Le Gascon who, not finding room enough for his exquisite pyrotechny on the outside of the volumes that he had to bind, conceived the idea of lining the side-covers with morocco and continuing his brilliant fiorituri on the inside too.

Synonyms for pyrotechny

Depending on context, synonyms include pyrotechnics.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pyrotechnics, pyro, mine, firework, fireworks, pyromachy.

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