Definitions for Detonation
ˌdɛt nˈeɪ ʃəndet·o·na·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. explosion, detonation, blowupnoun

   a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

2. detonationnoun

   the act of detonating an explosive

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detonationnoun

   An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.

2. detonationnoun

   Engine knocking, an improper combustion in internal combustion engines

3. Etymology: From détonation.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detonationnoun

   Somewhat more forcible than the ordinary crackling of salts in calcination; as in the going off of the pulvis or aurum fulminans, or the like. It is also used for that noise which happens upon the mixture of fluids that ferment with violence; as oil of turpentine with oil of vitriol, resembling the explosion of gunpowder. John Quincy

   Etymology: detono, Latin.

   A new coal is not to be cast on the nitre, ’till the detonation occasioned by the former be either quite or almost altogether ended; unless it chance that the puffing matter do blow the coal too soon out of the crucible. Robert Boyle, on Saltpetre.

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1. Detonation

   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. detonation

   Detonation refers to a violent explosion or rapid combustion process, typically resulting from combustion of fuel-air mixture or the sudden release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction. It involves a shock wave that passes through the explosive material, causing extremely high temperature and pressure changes. This term is commonly used in fields such as military, engineering, and physical sciences.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detonationnoun

   an explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. dtonation.]

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1. Detonation

   Detonation involves a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. Detonations are observed in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. The velocity of detonations in solid and liquid explosives is much higher than that in gaseous ones, which allows the wave system to be observed with greater detail. Gaseous detonations normally occur in confined systems but are occasionally observed in large vapor clouds. They are often associated with a gaseous mixture of fuel and oxidant of a composition, somewhat below conventional flammability limits. There is an extraordinary variety of fuels that may be present as gases, as droplet fogs and as dust suspensions. Other materials, such as acetylene, ozone and hydrogen peroxide are detonable in the absence of oxygen, a more complete list is given by both Stull and Bretherick. Oxidants include halogens, ozone, hydrogen peroxide and oxides of nitrogen. In terms of external damage, it is important to distinguish between detonations and deflagrations where the exothermic wave is subsonic and maximum pressures are at most a quarter of those generated by the former. Processes involved in the transition between deflagration and detonation are covered thoroughly for gasses by Nettleton.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detonation

   The instantaneous conversion of an explosive into gas; a term applied to the phenomena attending the explosion of certain substances, such as nitro-glycerine, chloride of nitrogen, iodide of nitrogen, gun-cotton, the picrates, etc. Detonation, or explosion of the first order, is distinguished from ordinary explosion, or explosion of the second order, by the different way in which the explosion is propagated. Ordinary explosion proceeds by inflammation, being nothing more than a rapid combustion. Detonation is propagated by vibration. A detonating agent is a substance used to produce the initial vibration, or “impulse of explosion.” The exploder, or cap, used for this purpose is usually primed with fulminate of mercury, a substance having a wide range in bringing about detonation in the high explosives.

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1. denotation

2. taeniodont

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Detonation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Detonation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Detonation in a Sentence

1. Sand Aijo:

   Once they hit the ground, the way Travis began positioning his body, it just wasn't -- it seemed strange to me, he kind of began to position himself, while still, mind Sand Aijo, holding this guy down, that's when the detonation happened.

2. Brenna Hosey:

   At this point is when we heard the 14 minutes til detonation announcement.

3. Cedric Leighton:

   The FOAB is a thermobaric bomb, which means that its payload explodes at much higher temperatures, the result is that living things within the area of detonation are vaporized, making the FOAB a spectacularly terrible weapon.

4. The PKK:

   Two of our armored vehicles suffered heavy damage after the detonation of hand-made explosives on the road. As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades.

5. Brian McGlinchey:

   Al Sharbi’s been deemed a high-risk individual who allegedly attended a training camp in Afghanistan and is a self-proclaimed bomb-maker, other detainees told interrogators Al Sharbi had been seen talking to Bin Laden, was very proficient with weapons and had been selected for specialized remote control detonation training.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Detonation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Detonation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Detonation
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Detonation
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Detonation
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
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