brisant

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brisant (not comparable)

1. (of an explosion or explosive) Having a shattering effect.
   • 1893, Charles E. Munroe, Notes on the Literature of Explosives, No. XXIII: Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Volume 18, page 123:

     The use of gun-cotton proper (trinitrocellulose) could not be thought of, owing to the brisant action of this body, but it was found that collodion-wool (dinitrocellulose, soluble gun-cotton), which was less brisant, could be converted into a nearly homogeneous mass which satisfied many of the requirements of a smoke-free powder, but it was still so brisant when used alone as to produce too high gas pressures and too irregular initial velocities.

   • 1959, Mitchel H. Bertram, William V. Feller, Memorandum 5-24-59L: A Simple Method for Determining Heat Transfer, Skin Friction, and Boundary-Layer Thickness for Hypersonic Laminar Boundary-Layer Flows in a Pressure Gradient, NASA, 5,

     At the start of the run a shattering or "brisant" detonation occurred in the line between the oxidant control valve (number 5, fig. 2(a)) and the oxidant tank. The propellant tank showed evidence of high internal pressure but no brisant detonation.

   • 1962, NAVWEPS OP 2212: Demolition Materials, Bureau of Naval Weapons, pages 6–12:

     Two charges should be used: a cratering charge, and a small charge of a brisant explosive.

   • 2016, Materials Analysis in Forensic Science‎:

     It is highly brisant with a VoD of 7300 ms-1 at a charge density of approximately 1.5 g cm-3.

• Briants

Borrowed from French brisant.

• IPA^(key): /briˈzɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: bri‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

brisant (comparative brisanter, superlative brisantst)

1. fast, snappy, explosive

• brisantbom
• brisantgranaat

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.zɑ̃/

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brisant

1. present participle of briser

• → English: brisance
• → German: brisant
• → German: Brisanz

brisant m (plural brisants)

1. reef
2. breaker (wave)

• “brisant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from French brisant.

• IPA^(key): /bʁiˈzant/
• Rhymes: -ant

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brisant (strong nominative masculine singular brisanter, comparative brisanter, superlative am brisantesten)

1. controversial
2. volatile
3. (figuratively) explosive

• → Swedish: brisant

• “brisant” in Duden online
• “brisant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

brisant (not comparable)

1. highly explosive

• brisad
• brisans
• brisera

• brisant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• brisant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• brisant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)