Noun

(en noun)

A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion ."}}

A bursting due to pressure.

The sound of an explosion.

A sudden uncontrolled increase.

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As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

A sudden outburst.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.}}

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.