Meaning of explosion in English

explosion

noun

/ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/ us

/ɪkˈsploʊ.ʒən/

explosion noun (BURST)

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the fact of something such as a bomb exploding:

The fire was thought to have been caused by a gas explosion.

[ C or U ]

the action of making something explode:

explosion of The explosion (= the intentional exploding) of nuclear devices in the Bikini Atoll was stopped in 1958.

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Fortunately there was no one in the house at the time of the explosion.
The explosion sent pieces of metal and glass hurtling through the air.
Eight people, including two children, were injured in the explosion.
The explosion brought the whole building crashing to the ground.
Witnesses say that there was an explosion and then the plane dropped from the sky.

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Exploding and erupting

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explosion noun (EMOTION)

[ C ]

a sudden strong expression of emotion:

explosion of There was an explosion of applause from the audience at the end of the performance.

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Expressing and showing feelings

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explosion noun (INCREASE)

C1 [ C ]

a large increase in the number of something that happens very quickly:

population explosion The government has had to take measures to halt the population explosion.

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Increasing and intensifying

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explosion noun (FALSE IDEA)

[ U ]

the act of proving that something is wrong:

explosion of the explosion of the conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the star

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Proving and disproving

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(Definition of explosion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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explosion

noun

/ɪkˈsploʊ·ʒən/

explosion noun (BURST)

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[ C/U ]

a violent burst, often with a loud noise:

[ C ] The fire was caused by a gas explosion.

[ U ] The explosion of the space shuttle shocked the nation.

explosion noun (INCREASE)

[ C ]

a quick and big increase:

Auto dealers report an explosion of interest in family-style vans.

(Definition of explosion from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of explosion

explosion

Section 4 contains necessary conditions for heteroclinic points to be chain explosions.

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The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' of social progress.

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High-energy ions produced in explosions of superheated atomic clusters.

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His interactions with his wife were marked more and more often by shocking explosions of temper.

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Although the article also mentioned the sound of two explosions being heard (terdengar), visual detail seemed predominant in the report.

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I n this way it was hoped that something of the interior wave phenomena in the heliumsphere explosions could be observed.

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Section 5 contains sufficient conditions for chain explosions to occur at heteroclinic tangencies.

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Three secret nuclear explosions did take place in the general region in 1958.

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The rate of implosions will change in the direction opposite to the rate of explosions.

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Schlieren records were obtained of a number of trial air and helium-sphere explosions at several initial sphere pressures.

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The pressure history behind the reflected spherical shock wave was recorded at several radii in the air and helium-sphere explosions, including those on altitude scaling.

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The average velocity of the glass fragments was 295 ft./sec in the 18 g air-sphere explosions, and 215ft./sec in the 16g helium-sphere explosions.

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The shadowgraphswere recorded from individual explosions a t the indicated time delays after the mallet struck the sphere.

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We concentrate on explosions in the chain recurrent set, which we refer to as chain explosions.

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Such time intervals were between 50-60 psec in the 400 p. s. i. air and 326 p. s. i. helium-sphere explosions.

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Collocations with explosion

explosion

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accidental explosion

This removed the principal risk of accidental explosion.

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boiler explosion

One had a cracked pin that parted, and another had a boiler explosion.

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controlled explosion

There will be a controlled explosion in a few minutes but let us not allow it to interfere with our debate.

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Translations of explosion

in Chinese (Traditional)

爆炸, 爆破, 爆裂…

Meaning of explosion in English

explosion noun (BURST)

explosion noun (EMOTION)

explosion noun (INCREASE)

explosion noun (FALSE IDEA)

explosion | American Dictionary

explosion noun (BURST)

explosion noun (INCREASE)

Examples of explosion

Collocations with explosion

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