explosion
UK/ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən//ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
explosion noun: a violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
Noun
explosion (countable and uncountable, plural explosions)
- 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.1913, Mining and Engineering World, page 171
- The sound of an explosion.
- A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4
- 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.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 139
explosion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
explosion in Hindi
- violent release of energy
- विस्फोट visphoṭ
explosion in Tamil
- violent release of energy
- வெடி veṭi
- sound of an explosion
- வெடி veṭi
- sudden increase, expansion, or bursting out
- திடீர் பெருக்கம் tiṭīr perukkam, எதிர்பாராத வளர்ச்சி etirpārāta vaḷarcci
explosion in Marathi
- violent release of energy
- स्फोट sphoṭ
explosion in Urdu
- violent release of energy
- دَھماکَہ dhamāka
More languagesFewer languages
- explosion in Bengali
- বিস্ফোরণ biśphōron
- explosion in Telugu
- పేలుడు pēluḍu
- explosion in Malayalam
- സ്ഫോടനം sphōṭanaṁ, പൊട്ടിത്തെറി poṭṭitteṟi
- explosion in Kannada
- ಸ್ಫೋಟ sphōṭa
- explosion in Punjabi
- ਧਮਾਕਾ dhamākā, ਵਿਸਫੋਟ visphoṭ, ਠਾਹ ṭhāh
- explosion in Gujarati
- વિસ્ફોટ
- explosion in Odia
- ବିସ୍ଫୋରଣ
- explosion in Nepali
- विस्फोट, बिस्फोट
- explosion in Pashto
- انفجار enfejār
- explosion in Tagalog
- pagsabog
- explosion in Arabic
- اِنْفِجَار infijār, تَفْجِير tafjīr
- explosion in Malay
- letupan, ledakan
- explosion in Indonesian
- ledakan, letupan, eksplosi
- explosion in Persian
- اِنْفِجار enfejâr, ترکش tarkeš
- explosion in Thai
- การระเบิด gaan-rá-bə̀ət, ภัยการระเบิด pai-gaan-rá-bə̀ət
- explosion in Vietnamese
- nổ
- explosion in Myanmar
- ပေါက်ကွဲမှု paukkwai:hmu.
Examples of explosion in a sentence
- 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.2005 June 3, Mark Tungate, Media Monoliths: How Great Media Brands Thrive and Survive, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 38:
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
Synonyms of explosion
Antonyms
Forms of explosion
| plural | explosions |
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Origin of explosion
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.
Words formed from explosion
- 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
Phrases with explosion
Questions about explosion
- What does explosion mean?
- Explosion means a violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
- What is explosion in Hindi?
- Explosion in Hindi is विस्फोट (visphoṭ). See Explosion meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use explosion in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is explosion?
- Explosion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce explosion?
- Explosion is pronounced /ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of explosion?
- The plural of explosion is explosions.
Words near explosion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: explosion (page history and authors); ಸ್ಫೋಟ (Kannada) (page history and authors); explosion (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); explosion (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); explosion (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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