Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - explosion
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Explosion
explosion
~ n 1 a loud sound caused by something such as a bomb bursting into small pieces (a nuclear explosion) + of (The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger shocked the nation.) 2 a process in which something such as a bomb is deliberately made to explode (controlled explosion of the device) 3 a sudden or rapid increase in the number or amount of something (The population explosion in India caused famine and poverty.) 4 a sudden expression of emotion, especially anger (His frustration grew, and I expected an explosion at any minute.) 5 a sudden very loud noise (an explosion of laughter)
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(explosions) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An explosion is a sudden, violent burst of energy, for example one caused by a bomb. After the second explosion, all of London’s main train and subway stations were shut down... Three people have been killed in a bomb explosion in northwest Spain. = blast N-COUNT 2. Explosion is the act of deliberately causing a bomb or similar device to explode. Bomb disposal experts blew up the bag in a controlled explosion... N-VAR 3. An explosion is a large rapid increase in the number or amount of something. The study also forecast an explosion in the diet soft-drink market... The spread of the suburbs has triggered a population explosion among America’s deer. N-COUNT: with supp 4. An explosion is a sudden violent expression of someone’s feelings, especially anger. Every time they met, Myra anticipated an explosion... = outburst N-COUNT 5. An explosion is a sudden and serious political protest or violence. ...the explosion of protest and violence sparked off by the killing of seven workers. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Latin ~-, explosio act of driving off by clapping, from explodere Date: 1667 1. the act or an instance of exploding injured in a laboratory ~ 2. a large-scale, rapid, or spectacular expansion or bursting out or forth the ~ of suburbia an ~ of red hair 3. the release of occluded breath that occurs in one kind of articulation of stop consonants ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 the act or an instance of exploding. 2 a loud noise caused by something exploding. 3 a a sudden outburst of noise. b a sudden outbreak of feeling, esp. anger. 4 a rapid or sudden increase, esp. of population. Etymology: L explosio scornful rejection (as EXPLODE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) взрыв 2) вспышка 3) тлв взрыв (видеоэффект) to muffle explosion — заглушать взрыв - base explosion - coal-dust explosion - crankcase explosion - dust explosion - excavating explosion - exhaust explosion - firedamp explosion - internal explosion - pin-point explosion - steam explosion - thermal explosion - vapor explosion ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1) взрыв; взрывание 2) вспышка, воспламенение 3) детонация детонационный 4) машиностр. разузлование проектируемого изделия explosion in the crankcase — взрыв в картере explosion in the muffler — взрыв в глушителе fumes from an explosion — газы выделяемые при взрыве - confined explosion - firedamp explosion - micro explosion - muffle explosion - nuclear explosion - self-similar explosion - unconfined explosion ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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– consumption explosion – demographic explosion – population explosion – wastes explosion ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. взрыв; разрыв volcanic explosion —- извержение вулкана stellar explosion —- астр. звездная вспышка, взрыв звезды an explosion of a boiler —- взрыв котла the ship was sunk by an explosion —- судно взорвалось и затонуло 2. вспышка (гнева); взрыв (смеха) an explosion of public indignation —- взрыв (волна) общественного негодования 3. бурный рост cultural (culture) explosion —- расцвет культуры population explosion, explosion of population —- биол. вспышка размножения популяции; бурный рост населения (в стране), демографический взрыв 4. фон. взрыв; эксплозия, размыкание 5. тех. взрыв; вспышка 6. авт. выхлоп ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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engine tech. двигатель внутреннего сгорания EXPLOSION noun 1) взрыв 2) вспышка (гнева и т.п.) 3) attr. - explosion engine - explosion stroke EXPLOSION stroke рабочий такт (двигателя внутреннего сгорания) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1656, from Fr. explosion, from L. explosionem (nom. explosio), from explodere "drive out by clapping" (see explode for origin and sense evolution). Sense of "rapid increase or development" is first attested 1953. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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