deflagration
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word deflagration. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word deflagration, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say deflagration in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word deflagration you have here. The definition of the word deflagration will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofdeflagration, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: déflagration
English
Etymology
From Latin dēflagrātiō, from dēflagrāre.
Pronunciation
Noun
deflagration (countable and uncountable, plural deflagrations)
- The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
- 1849, Heinrich Rose, A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis:
- If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
- 1998, Michael R Bromwich, The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices & Alleged Misconduct:
- Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
Antonyms
- (with respect to speed of propagation): detonation
Hypernyms
Related terms
Translations
intense fire
|