detonation
61detonation — noun Date: 1686 1. the action or process of detonating 2. rapid combustion in an internal combustion engine that results in knocking …
62detonation — Synonyms and related words: backfire, bang, bark, blast, blowout, blowup, boom, bowshot, bullet, burst, cannon, crack, discharge, ejection, explosion, flare, flash, fulguration, fulmination, fusillade, gun, gunfire, gunshot, pop, potshot, report …
63detonation — In a gasoline engine, the phenomenon occurring when the last portion of the fuel air mixture ignites spontaneously instead of burning in a normal manner. The resulting explosion is known as engine knock …
64Detonation — Brag, knald …
65detonation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. explosion, blast, discharge, firing; see explosion 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. explosion, discharge, blow up, firing, boom, pop, roar. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A violent release of confined energy, usually… …
66detonation — det|o|na|tion [ ,detn eıʃn ] noun count an explosion a. uncount the act of making something such as a bomb explode …
67detonation — An exothermic chemical reaction which propagates through reactive material at supersonic speed …
68detonation — det·o·na·tion || ‚detÉ™ neɪʃn n. explosion, blowing up, setting off of an explosion …
69detonation — n. Explosive report, bursting noise …
70detonation — noun (C, U) an explosion, or the action of making a bomb etc explode …