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Detonation   /dˌɛtənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Detonation

noun
1.
A violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction.  Synonyms: blowup, explosion.
2.
The act of detonating an explosive.



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"Detonation" Quotes from Famous Books



... behind the steel-bound door for the coming detonation. The sound of it smote him like a blow on the chest, followed by a rush of air and a sudden ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
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... where I stood, the whole landscape about me was illuminated with the fierce glare of the bursting shells, while the ground on which I stood quivered with the thunderous detonation of the artillery. ...
— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock
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... with the utmost coolness, a coolness which in the circumstances was nothing less than heroism, uncoupled his engine, and leaving the trucks to their fate, steamed back to the town. Before he could reach his destination, however, the shock of an awful detonation greeted his ears. The Boers had again fired on the trucks, believing them to be full of passengers, and, as a natural consequence, the dynamite ...
— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) - From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, - 15th Dec. 1899 • Louis Creswicke
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... perhaps for many moments thereafter, none of them knew very definitely what had happened. There was a cloud of dust, a terrific detonation, a sudden absolute darkness, as in some revulsion of nature, a stifling sensation. They were penned within the grotto by a great fragment of the beetling cliff. Doubtless it had been previously fractured by the action ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
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... the left, a jagged gap appeared. Suddenly, far below, toward the river, a crashing detonation shattered harsh echoes ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
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