implosion
nounA violent collapse inward, as of a highly evacuated glass vessel.
nounViolent compression.
nounThe inward collapse of a building that is being demolished in a controlled fashion by the weakening and breaking of structural members by explosives.
nounA catastrophic failure.
nounThe pronunciation of a stop consonant with the breath drawn in.
nounA sudden collapse or bursting inward: opposed to explosion.
nounIn phonology, see the extract.
nounA bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; — contrasted with
The inward-moving detonation wave cause by detonation of explosives arrayed spherically around a core; — a technique used in atomic bombs to compress fissionable material to allow a chain reaction time to produce an explosion of the fissionable material.
nounA sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering