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explosion

noun
/ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/UK/ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from explōsiōnis
  2. derived from explosion

Definitions

  1. A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical)

    A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.

    • 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.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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Derived

bacon explosion, Cambrian explosion, controlled explosion, Coulomb explosion, counterexplosion, cryptoexplosion, explosionlike, explosion-proof, explosionproof, explosion ship, explosion shot, explosiony, hyper explosion, hyper-explosion, hyperexplosion, implosion, like an explosion in a paint factory, microexplosion, nonexplosion, nuclear explosion, smoke explosion, superexplosion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at explosion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at explosion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at explosion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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