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hyper-explosion

hyper-explosion is the alternative form of hyperexplosion.

Meaning of hyperexplosion

Noun

hyperexplosion (plural hyperexplosions)

  1. (rare) An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
    • Impacts versus Hyperexplosions as a cause of circular structures on Earth.1982, Jennifer M. Groh, Tectonics & Structural Geology Newsletter, Volume 8, Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology. Geological Society of Australia, page 52

Forms of hyper-explosion

pluralhyper-explosions

Questions about hyper-explosion

What is hyper-explosion the alternative form of?
Hyper-explosion is the alternative form of hyperexplosion.

Words near hyper-explosion in the dictionary

  1. hyper-corrective
  2. hyper-correctness
  3. hyper-empathetic
  4. hyper-empathy
  5. hyper-empirical
  6. hyper-explosion
  7. hyper-explosions
  8. hyper-foreign
  9. hyper-foreignism
  10. hyper-foreignisms
  11. hyper-foreignization

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