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Definitions: Implosion |
ImplosionNoun1. A sudden inward collapse; "the implosion of a light bulb". 2. The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Implosion \Im*plo"sion\, noun. [Formed by substitution of prefix im- in for prefix ex- in explosion.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | The rapid inward collapsing of the walls of a vacuum system or device as the result of failure of the walls to sustain the ambient pressure. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Accident caused by the failure of a CRT. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Violent shattering of a container that results when the external pressure becomes sufficiently large. Consequently it may result from the vacuum in a container. In this process the fragments of t he walls move inwards with tremendous force. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A bursting inward; sudden collapse; opposite of explosion. (references) |
Public Administration | The opposite of explosion, a bursting inward, as in the intentional collapse of a tall building under demolition. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the context of cavitation, implosion is a suctional process that causes matter to move inwards, not outwards as is the case with explosion. This inward (centripetal) motion, however, does not follow a straight (radial) path to the centre; it follows a spiralling, whirling path. This is called a vortex and it is the secret of nature.
A characteristic feature of a vortex is that the outside of the vortex moves slowly and the centre moves fast. As water is imploded in a vortex, suspended particles, which are denser than water, are sucked into the centre of flow, frictional resistance is reduced and the speed of the flow is increased.
The vortex motion, which also causes a drop in temperature and an increase in density, is paramount for water to stay healthy and disease free.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Implosion."
Crosswords: Implosion |
| English words defined with "implosion": gravitational collapse ♦ Imploded, implosion therapy, Implosive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "implosion": implosion weapon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Implosion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (implosion), Swedish (implosion). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Implosion (1983) | |
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| "Implosion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Implosion" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
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Expressions using "implosion": implosion therapy ♦ implosion weapon. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
folk implosion | 73 |
implosion | 32 |
building implosion | 10 |
implosion research | 4 |
implosion maxwell | 4 |
cinergy field implosion | 2 |
air court implosion | 2 |
implosion nike | 2 |
boiler implosion | 2 |
implosion vortex | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "implosion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | имплозия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 爆聚. (various references) | |
Danish | implosion. (various references) | |
Dutch | implosie. (various references) | |
Finnish | imploosio, sisäänpäinräjähdys. (various references) | |
French | implosion. (various references) | |
German | implosion. (various references) | |
Greek | κατεδάφιση με υπονόμευση, έκρηξη (blast, blasting, blow out, blow up, blowing, breaking, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, shot, splitting), ρήξη προς τα μέσα, γοργή σύμπτυξη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | betódulás, záralkotás, robbanásszerű összeroppanás, beszakadás, berobbanás, összeroppanás (crash). (various references) | |
Italian | implosione. (various references) | |
Korean | 내파. (various references) | |
Manx | stiagh-vleaystey, stiagh-scoltey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | implosionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | implosão. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | implozija (plosion). (various references) | |
Spanish | implosión. (various references) | |
Swedish | implosion. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "implosion": implosions. (additional references) | |
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"Implosion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impluvia, inplosion. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "implosion" (pronounced i'mplō"zhun) |
| 6 | -p l ō" zh u n | explosion. |
| 4 | -ō" zh u n | corrosion, erosion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, evasion, excision, exclusion, excursion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: plosion. | |
-3 letters: lipins, poison, polios, simlin, simoon, solion. | |
-4 letters: imino, impis, limns, limos, limps, linos, lions, lipin, loins, looms, loons, loops, milos, minis, moils, monos, mools, moons, noils, nolos, nomoi, nomos, olios, opsin, osmol, pilis, pions, polio, polis, polos, pools, poons, sloop, snool, snoop, solon, spoil, spool, spoon. | |
-5 letters: impi, imps, ions, limn, limo, limp, lino, lins, lion, lips, lisp, loin, loom, loon, loop, loos, lops, milo, mils, mini, miso, moil, mols, mono, mons, mool, moon, moos, mops, nils, nims, nips, nisi, noil, nolo, noms, oils, olio, oops, pili, pins, pion, piso, pois, polo, pols, poms, pons, pool, poon, silo, simp, slim, slip, slop, snip, soil, soli, solo, soon, spin. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: implosions. | |
+2 letters: malposition. | |
+3 letters: compilations, hypolimnions, malpositions, monopolising, monopolistic. | |
+4 letters: complications, compositional, entomophilies. | |
+5 letters: antimonopolist, micropulsation, operationalism, parsimoniously, physiognomical, polymerisation, recompilations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 6C 6F 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. .-.. --- ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p l o s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 006C 006F 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982788185758180 |
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