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

(en noun)

A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.

(Francis Bacon)

Something that has no force or meaning.

(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .

One of the beads in nulled work.

(statistics) null hypothesis