hyperexplosion

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noun

An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.

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Meanings

nounhyperexplosion (plural hyperexplosions)

plural hyperexplosions · alternative hyper explosion · alternative hyper-explosion

  1. rareAn extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.

    Impacts versus Hyperexplosions as a cause of circular structures on Earth.

    1982, Jennifer M. Groh, Tectonics & Structural Geology Newsletter, Volume 8, Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology. Geological Society of Australia, page 52
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    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."

    1993 September 26, Sharon Begley, “The Puzzle Of Genius”, in www.newsweek.com, archived from the original on 09 May 2021

    His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.

    2009, John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 215

Origin

From hyper- + explosion.

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