Definitions for Detonate
ˈdɛt nˌeɪtdet·o·nate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. explode, detonate, blow up, set offverb

   cause to burst with a violent release of energy

   "We exploded the nuclear bomb"

2. detonate, explode, blow upverb

   burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"

   "The Molotov cocktail exploded"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detonateverb

   To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.

2. detonateverb

   To cause an explosion.

3. Etymology: From detonare. It meant "to stop thundering", e.g. as in weather (de- = "from", tonare = "to thunder"). The current English meaning seems to be a new formation in postclassical times.

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1. detonate

   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. Detonations propagate supersonically through shock waves with speeds in the range of 1 km/sec and differ from deflagrations which have subsonic flame speeds in the range of 1 m/sec.Detonations occur in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. The velocity of detonation in solid and liquid explosives is much higher than that in gaseous ones, which allows the wave system to be observed with greater detail (higher resolution). A very wide variety of fuels may occur as gases (e.g. hydrogen), droplet fogs, or dust suspensions. In addition to dioxygen, oxidants can include halogen compounds, ozone, hydrogen peroxide and oxides of nitrogen. Gaseous detonations are often associated with a mixture of fuel and oxidant in a composition somewhat below conventional flammability ratios. They happen most often in confined systems, but they sometimes occur in large vapor clouds. Other materials, such as acetylene, ozone, and hydrogen peroxide are detonable in the absence of an oxidant (or reductant). In these cases the energy released results from the rearrangement of the molecular constituents of the material.Detonation was discovered in 1881 by four French scientists Marcellin Berthelot and Paul Marie Eugène Vieille and Ernest-François Mallard and Henry Louis Le Chatelier. The mathematical predictions of propagation were carried out first by David Chapman in 1899 and by Émile Jouguet in 1905, 1906 and 1917. The next advance in understanding detonation was made by John von Neumann and Werner Döring in the early 1940s and Yakov B. Zel'dovich and Aleksandr Solomonovich Kompaneets in the 1960s.

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1. detonate

   To detonate means to cause an explosive substance or device to undergo a rapid chemical reaction, resulting in a violent release of energy, often characterized by a loud noise, shock waves, and usually destruction. This term is often used in military, scientific, or technological contexts.

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1. Detonateverb

   to explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur

2. Detonateverb

   to cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report

3. Etymology: [L. detonare, v. i., to thunder down; de + tonare to thunder; akin to E. thunder. See Thunder, and cf. Detonize.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detonate

   det′o-nāt, v.i. to explode.—v.t. to cause to explode.—ns. Detonā′tion, an explosion with report; Det′onator, a detonating substance: an apparatus for the explosion of a detonating substance, as a percussion-cap.—Detonating powder, powder, such as the fulminates, which explodes easily by impact or heating, and which may be used to cause other substances to explode. [L. detonāre, -ātum—de, down, and tonāre, to thunder.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Detonate in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Detonate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Detonate in a Sentence

1. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings:

   The same automated robot equipment to detonate and defuse bombs was used to place C-4 in place and to detonate that.

2. East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway:

   There (were) two options: We either detonate those tanks, or they detonate themselves, yes, harmful chemicals went into the air. I am truly sorry, but that is the only option we had. If we didn’t do that, then they were going to blow up, and we were going to have shrapnel all across this town.

3. Mayor Trent Conaway:

   There( were) two options : We either detonate those tanks, or they detonate themselves.

4. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev:

   Now it could be luck that they put this thing together, put it at the Boston Marathon finish line, and were able to detonate them so close to each other and sequentially. But it was a pretty sophisticated attack.

5. Ankit Panda:

   Adding more nuclear warheads to a single missile can better assure them of an ability to penetrate American missile defense and, if they're worried that their warheads might have reliability issues, more warheads increases the odds that one warhead will successfully detonate.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Detonate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Detonate
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonate
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Detonate
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Detonate