EXPLOSION


Meaning of EXPLOSION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ik-ˈsplō-zhən ]

noun

Etymology: Latin explosion-, explosio act of driving off by clapping, from explodere

Date: 1667

1. : the act or an instance of exploding

injured in a laboratory explosion

2. : a large-scale, rapid, or spectacular expansion or bursting out or forth

the explosion of suburbia

an explosion of red hair

3. : the release of occluded breath that occurs in one kind of articulation of stop consonants

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.