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hyperexplosion en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + explosion.

Meanings

1. (rare) An 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:
   • 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:

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