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- Dictionarydetonation/ˌdɛtəˈneɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of causing a bomb or explosive device to explode: "she was in a control building at the time of detonation"
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Detonation (from Latin detonare 'to thunder down/forth') is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
Detonation is the action or process of detonating, or rapid combustion in an internal combustion engine. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related entries of detonation from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Detonation is the act of exploding something, or the fact of being exploded. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its usage in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Detonation is the act of exploding something, or the fact of being exploded. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and usage in sentences from various sources.
A detonation is an explosion, usually done on purpose. Nuclear weapons cause massive detonations, and cities sometimes plan a careful detonation of an abandoned building in order to make room for a new structure.
Detonation is a large or powerful explosion, or the action of causing a device to explode. It can also refer to rapid combustion in an engine or a shock wave in physics. See synonyms, word frequency, and usage examples.
noun. the act of detonating. an explosion. Machinery. the premature spontaneous burning of a fuel–air mixture in an internal-combustion engine due to the high temperature of air compressed in a cylinder.
