| NOUN | event | detonation, explosion, blowup | a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction |
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| act | detonation | the act of detonating an explosive |
| Sounds | deh.tahney'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | A violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction. | |
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| Synonyms | explosion, blowup | |
| Narrower | airburst | An explosion in the atmosphere |
| backfire | A loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine | |
| big bang | (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe | |
| blast | An explosion (as of dynamite) | |
| blowback, backfire | The backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | |
| fragmentation | The scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | |
| inflation | (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | |
| Broader | discharge | The sudden giving off of energy |
| Spanish | detonación, explosion, explosión | |
| Catalan | detonació, explosió | |
| Verbs | detonate | burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction |
| Meaning | The act of detonating an explosive. | |
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| Narrower | percussion | The act of exploding a percussion cap |
| Broader | explosion, burst | The act of exploding / exploding or bursting |
| Spanish | denotación, detonación | |
| Catalan | detonació | |
| Verbs | detonate | cause to burst with a violent release of energy |
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