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explosion is a noun meaning "a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
the act of exploding or bursting
“the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children”
“the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft”
the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for explosion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.