explosion

See also: Explosion and explosión

English

Three explosions
The explosion is visible inside this engine because the cylinder head is transparent.
This target was strafed until an explosion resulted.

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-u-h₂-
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-u-d-
Latin plaudō
Latin explōdō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tio
Latin explosiō
Latin explosiōnemder.
French explosionbor.
English explosion

    From French explosion, from Latin explōsio, from explōdo (“to drive out by clapping”), from ex- and plōdo (“to clap or strike”). For more information see explode.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, /ɪkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
    • Audio (US):(file)

    Noun

    explosion (countable and uncountable, plural explosions)

    1. A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
      • 1913, Mining and Engineering World, page 171:
        A man was injured by an explosion caused by drilling into a missed shot at the Mendota mine above Silver Plume, Colo.
    2. The sound of an explosion.
    3. A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:
        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.
      • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 139:
        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.
      • 2005 June 3, Mark Tungate, Media Monoliths: How Great Media Brands Thrive and Survive, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 38:
        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.
      • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.

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    French

    Etymology

      From Latin explosiōnem, accusative singular of explosiō.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      explosion f (plural explosions)

      1. explosion

      Derived terms

      Further reading

      Occitan

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      explosion f (plural explosions)

      1. explosion

      Further reading

      • Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2026, page 310

      Swedish

      Etymology

      From Latin explosiō, attested from 1770.[1]

      Noun

      explosion c

      1. explosion
        Synonym: sprängning
        Antonym: implosion

      Inflection

      Declension of explosion
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite explosion explosions
      definite explosionen explosionens
      plural indefinite explosioner explosioners
      definite explosionerna explosionernas

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      References

      1. ^ “explosion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
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