hyperexplosion

English

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Etymology

hyper- +‎ explosion

Noun

hyperexplosion (plural hyperexplosions)

  1. (rare) An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
    • 1982, Jennifer M. Groh, Tectonics & Structural Geology Newsletter, Volume 8‎, Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology. Geological Society of Australia, page 52:
      Impacts versus Hyperexplosions as a cause of circular structures on Earth.
    • 1993 September 26, Sharon Begley, “The Puzzle Of Genius”, in www.newsweek.com‎:
      His "inflation theory" posits that the universe began in a hyperexplosion that makes the big bang look like a whimper; it answers mysteries of cosmologyon which earlier theories had been mute."
    • 2009, John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum‎, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 215:
      His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.
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