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Detonation vs Breaking - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between detonation and breaking

is that detonation is an explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression while breaking is the act by which something is broken.

As a verb breaking is

present participle of lang=en.

detonation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
  • Engine knocking, an improper combustion in internal combustion engines

    • Related terms

    * detonate * detonator

    Antonyms

    * (with respect to speed of propagation ): deflagration

    Hypernyms

    * combustion

    Anagrams

    * * English words suffixed with -ation

    breaking

    English

    (wikipedia breaking)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The act by which something is broken.
  • * 2009 , John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (page 53)
    • We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation
  • (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong
  • (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones
  • break dancing
  • * 2014 , Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond (page 48)
    • The urban dance genre includes breaking , waacking, and house dancing, among others.

    Derived terms

    * aerobreaking

    Anagrams

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