EXPLOSIVE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.

2.
n.

An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.

3.
n.

A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.


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