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

(leak) (en noun)

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

a leak in a roof

a leak in a boat

a leak in a gas pipe

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

The leak gained on the ship's pumps.

A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.

The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.

The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.

The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .

(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

resource leak

memory leak

An act of urination.

I have to take a leak .