Explosion vs Shattering - What's the difference?
explosion | shattering | Related terms |
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)
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The sound of an explosion.
A sudden uncontrolled increase.
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A sudden outburst.
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The act of something that shatters.
* 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
Explosion is a related term of shattering.
As nouns the difference between explosion and shattering
is that explosion is explosion while shattering is the act of something that shatters.As a verb shattering is
.explosion
English
Noun
(en noun)Chico Harlan
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 ."}}
- 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.
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.}}
Synonyms
* blast * burst * detonation * eruption * fulmination * bang * boomAntonyms
* implosionSee also
* (wikipedia) ----shattering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)