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detonation

noun
🔊/ˌdetəˈneɪʃn/
🔊/ˌdetəˈneɪʃn/
 [countable, uncountable]
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  1. an explosion; the action of making something explode爆炸；起爆；引爆Topics War and conflictc2
    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French détonation, from the verb détoner, from Latin detonare ‘thunder down’, from de- ‘down’ + tonare ‘to thunder’.