Noun

• S: (n) explosion, detonation, blowup (a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) airburst (an explosion in the atmosphere)
• S: (n) blast (an explosion (as of dynamite))
• S: (n) bomb blast (the explosion of a bomb)
• S: (n) nuclear explosion, atomic explosion (the explosion of an atomic bomb)
• S: (n) backfire (a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine)
• S: (n) big bang ((cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe)
• S: (n) blowback, backfire (the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired)
• S: (n) backblast, back-blast (backfire from a recoilless weapon)
• S: (n) fragmentation (the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes)
• S: (n) inflation ((cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) detonation (the act of detonating an explosive)