explosion
Noun
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is a type of: discharge - the sudden giving off of energysubtypes:
- airburst - an explosion in the atmosphere
- blast - an explosion (as of dynamite)
- backfire - a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- big bang - (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
- backfire, blowback - the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- fragmentation - the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
- inflation - (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
same as: blowup, detonation -
is a type of: change of integrity - the act of changing the unity or wholeness of somethingsubtypes:
- detonation - the act of detonating an explosive
- fulmination - the act of exploding with noise and violence
same as: burst -
is a type of: increase - a change resulting in an increase
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is a type of: noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
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is a type of: release, tone ending - (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or toneis a part of: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing itsame as: plosion
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is a type of: golf shot, golf stroke, swing - the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
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