detonation

det·o·na·tion  (dtn-shn)

n.

1. The act of exploding.

2. An explosion.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	detonation - a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction blowup, explosion discharge - the sudden giving off of energy airburst - an explosion in the atmosphere blast - an explosion (as of dynamite) backfire - a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine big bang - (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe backfire, blowback - the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired fragmentation - the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes inflation - (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
	2.	detonation - the act of detonating an explosive burst, explosion - the act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft" percussion - the act of exploding a percussion cap

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detonation

noun explosion, blast, bang, report, boom, discharge, fulmination