deflagration
noun/ˌdɛfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/UK
Etymology
From Latin dēflagrātiō, from dēflagrāre.
- derived from dēflagrātiō
Definitions
The act of deflagrating
The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
- If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
- Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
The neighborhood
- antonymdetonationwith respect to speed of propagation
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for deflagration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA