explosion

See also: Explosion, and explosión

English

Three explosions

Etymology

From French explosion, from Latin explōsiōnis, genitive form of explōsio, from explōdo (“I drive out by clapping”), from ex- and plōdo (“I clap or strike”). For more information see explode#Etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, /ɪkˈsploʊ.ʒən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

explosion (countable and uncountable, plural explosions)

1. A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
   • 1913, Mining and Engineering World, page 171:

     A man was injured by an explosion caused by drilling into a missed shot at the Mendota mine above Silver Plume, Colo.

2. The sound of an explosion.
3. A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:

     As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

   • 2005 June 3, Mark Tungate, Media Monoliths: How Great Media Brands Thrive and Survive, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 38:

     Her image is supposedly rebellious, but she looks scrubbed and healthy, with an explosion of blonde hair and generous curves shoved into too-tight clothing.

   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.

Synonyms

• blast
• burst
• detonation
• eruption
• fulmination
• bang
• boom

Antonyms

• implosion

Derived terms

• bacon explosion
• Cambrian explosion
• controlled explosion
• Coulomb explosion
• explosion-proof
• explosion shot
• hyper-explosion
• hyper explosion
• implosion
• like an explosion in a paint factory
• nuclear explosion
• smoke explosion

 

Related terms

• explode
• explosive
• principle of explosion

Translations

violent release of energy

• Afrikaans: ontploffing (af)
• Albanian: shpërthim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِنْفِجَار m (infijār), تَفْجِير m (tafjīr)

  Egyptian Arabic: انفجار m (infigār)

• Armenian: պայթյուն (hy) (paytʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: partlayış
• Basque: leherketa
• Belarusian: вы́бух m (výbux)
• Bengali: বিস্ফোরণ (bn) (biśphōron)
• Bulgarian: взрив (bg) m (vzriv), експло́зия (bg) f (eksplózija)
• Burmese: ပေါက်ကွဲမှု (paukkwai:hmu.)
• Catalan: explosió (ca) f
• Chechen: эккхийтар (eqqiı̇tar), эккхар (eqqar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爆炸 (zh) (bàozhà), 爆發／爆发 (zh) (bàofā)

• Czech: výbuch (cs) m
• Danish: eksplosion (da) c
• Dutch: explosie (nl) f, ontploffing (nl) f
• Elfdalian: eksplusiuon m
• Esperanto: eksplodo
• Estonian: plahvatus (et)
• Faroese: spreinging f
• Finnish: räjähdys (fi)
• French: explosion (fr) f
• Galician: explosión (gl) f
• Georgian: აფეთქება (apetkeba)
• German: Explosion (de) f
• Greek: έκρηξη (el) (ékrixi)

  Ancient Greek: ἔκρηξις (ékrēxis)

• Hebrew: פִּיצוּץ (he) m (pitsúts)
• Hindi: विस्फोट (hi) m (visphoṭ)
• Hungarian: robbanás (hu)
• Icelandic: sprenging
• Ido: explozo (io)
• Indonesian: ledakan (id), letupan (id), eksplosi (id)
• Irish: pléasc f
• Italian: esplosione (it) f, scoppio (it) m
• Japanese: 爆発 (ja) (ばくはつ bakuhatsu)
• Kalmyk: хаһрлһн (xağrlğn)
• Kapampangan: akbung
• Kazakh: қопарылыс (qoparylys), жарылыс (jarylys)
• Khmer: ការផ្ទុះ (kaa phtuh)
• Korean: 폭발(爆發) (ko) (pokbal)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەقاندن (teqandin)

  Northern Kurdish: teqîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жарылыш (ky) (jarılış), жарылуу (ky) (jarıluu)
• Lao: ການລະເບີດ (kān la bœ̄t)
• Latin: displosio m, diruptio m
• Latvian: sprādziens m
• Lithuanian: sprogimas m, eksplozija f
• Luxembourgish: Explosioun f
• Macedonian: експлозија f (eksplozija)
• Malay: letupan (ms), ledakan (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്ഫോടനം (ml) (sphōṭanaṁ), പൊട്ടിത്തെറി (poṭṭitteṟi)
• Maori: papātanga, pakūtanga
• Marathi: स्फोट (mr) m (sphoṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тэсрэлт (mn) (tesrelt), дэлбэрэлт (mn) (delberelt)

• Northern Sami: bávkkiheapmi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksplosjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: eksplosjon m

• Pashto: انفجار m (enfejār)
• Persian: اِنْفِجار (fa) (enfejâr), ترکش (fa) (tarkeš)
• Polish: wybuch (pl) m, eksplozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: explosão (pt)
• Punjabi: ਧਮਾਕਾ m (dhamākā), ਵਿਸਫੋਟ m (visphoṭ)
• Romanian: explozie (ro) f
• Russian: взрыв (ru) (vzryv)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐкспло̄зија f

  Roman: èksplōzija (sh) f

• Slovak: výbuch m
• Slovene: eksplozija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower: eksplozija f

• Spanish: explosión (es) f
• Swahili: mlipuko (sw)
• Swedish: explosion (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsabog
• Tajik: таркиш (tarkiš), таркидан (tarkidan), инфиҷор (infijor)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పేలుడు (te) (pēluḍu)
• Thai: การระเบิด (th) (gaan-rá-bə̀ət), ภัยการระเบิด (pai-gaan-rá-bə̀ət)
• Turkish: patlama (tr)
• Turkmen: ýarylma
• Ukrainian: ви́бух m (výbux)
• Urdu: دَھماکَہ m (dhamāka)
• Uyghur: پارتىلاش (partilash)
• Uzbek: portlash (uz)
• Vietnamese: nổ (vi)
• Welsh: tanchwa f, ffrwydrad (cy) m
• West Frisian: ûntploffing n
• Yiddish: אויפֿרײַס m (oyfrays), ^{(please verify)} פּלאַץ m (plats)

sound of an explosion

• Finnish: räjähdys (fi)
• Galician: estouro m, detonación (gl) f, estoupido m
• Greek: ανατίναξη (el) f (anatínaxi)
• Irish: pléasc f
• Italian: scoppio (it) m
• Japanese: 爆発音 (ばくはつおん bakuhatsuon)
• Maori: rengapapā
• Punjabi: ਠਾਹ f (ṭhāh)
• Romanian: detunătură (ro)
• Russian: взрыв (ru) (vzryv)
• Swahili: mlipuko (sw)

sudden increase, expansion, or bursting out

• Finnish: räjähdys (fi), räjähtäminen (fi)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} സ്ഫോടനം (ml) (sphōṭanaṁ), ^{(please verify)} പൊട്ടിത്തെറി (poṭṭitteṟi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksplosjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: eksplosjon m

• Polish: gwałtowny wzrost
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} izbucnire neașteptată (subită) f
• Swahili: mlipuko (sw)

See also

• explosion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “explosion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From Latin explosiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splo.zjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

explosion f (plural explosions)

1. explosion

Derived terms

• explosion cambrienne
• moteur à explosion

Related terms

• exploser

Further reading

• “explosion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

explosion f (plural explosions)

1. explosion

Related terms

• explosar
• explosiu

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 310.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin explosiō, attested from 1770.

Noun

explosion c

1. explosion

   Synonym: sprängning

   Antonym: implosion

Inflection

Declension of explosion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	explosion	explosions
	definite	explosionen	explosionens
plural	indefinite	explosioner	explosioners
	definite	explosionerna	explosionernas

Derived terms

• explosionsartad
• explosionsmotor
• granatexplosion

Related terms

• explodera
• explosiv