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Explosion   /ɪksplˈoʊʒən/   Listen
Explosion

noun
1.
A violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction.  Synonyms: blowup, detonation.
2.
The act of exploding or bursting.  Synonym: burst.  "The burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"
3.
A sudden great increase.  "The information explosion"
4.
The noise caused by an explosion.
5.
The terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant.  Synonym: plosion.
6.
A sudden outburst.  "An explosion of rage"
7.
A golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball.



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"Explosion" Quotes from Famous Books



... elaborate display of fireworks ever devised by Mr. Pain would be but a poor thing compared with the spectacle presented when a converter is poured. The whole world glows with golden heat, and is filled with an explosion of brilliant sparks, and as the molten metal passes out into the sunlight that light is by contrast so feeble that it seems almost to cast a shadow over the white-hot vats ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
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... anyone could have attempted such an adventure; but there had been little experience of this newly-discovered gas in those days. We are not surprised to read that, when high in the air, there was an awful explosion and the brave aeronaut fell to the earth ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton
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... muffled explosion in the sample piano, which rocks with the jar, at the same time emitting a few curls of smoke. General exclamations of horror and fright as all of the committee break ...
— The Gibson Upright • Booth Tarkington
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... purport of the facts, figures and argument are better known, but then I had the chagrin of seeing my projectile explode in the wrong camp, and I did not try to right myself, because I feared that to explain the error might nullify the ultimate effect of the explosion. To my mother alone did I trouble to point out my real meaning, and then because she had been shocked to see me assailed in her favorite journal, the Presbyterian Searchlight, as a notable example of the result of philosophy ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
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... of his own truer knowledge, but what he would have said was furiously interrupted by a volume of strange sounds from the adjoining banqueting-hall. There was a rattle and clink as of many pewter mugs banged lustily upon an oaken table; there was a shrill explosion of laughter, the work of many merry voices; there was the grinding noise of heavy chairs pushed back across the floor for the greater ease of their occupants; there was a tapping as of pipe-bowls on the board, and then over all ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
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