implosion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=plo=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

implosion, n. [Formed by substitution of pref. im- in for pref. ex- in explosion.].

•  A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.  [1913 Webster]
•  The inward-moving detonation wave cause by detonation of explosives arrayed spherically around a core; -- a technique used in atomic bombs to compress fissionable material to allow a chain reaction time to produce an explosion of the fissionable material.  [PJC]
•  A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.  H. Sweet.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

implosion

Snap

N snap, rapping, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms), gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms), whack, wham, pow, rapping, Int, kaboom!, whamo!, Heewhack!, pow!.