detonation
noun/ˌdetəˈneɪʃn/
/ˌdetəˈneɪʃn/
[countable, uncountable]- an explosion; the action of making something explodeTopics War and conflictc2Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French détonation, from the verb détoner, from Latin detonare ‘thunder down’, from de- ‘down’ + tonare ‘to thunder’.
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