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English
Etymology
Back-formation from implosion.
Pronunciation
Verb
implode (third-person singular simple present implodes, present participle imploding, simple past and past participle imploded)
- (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
- Antonym: explode
The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.
- (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech.
- (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
- (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
- Antonym: explode
1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet):I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
Translations
to collapse or burst inward violently
Italian
Verb
implode
- third-person singular present indicative of implodere
Portuguese
Verb
implode
- inflection of implodir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative