Sekirov Dictionary

explosive

UK /ɛkˈspləʊsɪv/US /ɛkˈsploʊsɪv/

adjective 7
noun 2
forms 3

adjective7

able to break apart suddenly with great force and a loud noise
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Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
- Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population. — 1992
(figurative) Rapidly accelerating.
(figurative) Shocking; startling.
•
Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
- He has an explosive personality.
Having the character of an explosion.
(no longer used) Synonym of plosive.

noun2

Any explosive substance.
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(old-fashioned) A plosive.
- The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g. — 1953

forms

explosives · more explosive · most explosive

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