Deflagrant vs Flagrant - What's the difference?
deflagrant | flagrant |
That burns with intense light and heat.
* 2003 Allan M. Williams - The Knight and the Blast Furnace
Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
As adjectives the difference between deflagrant and flagrant
is that deflagrant is deflagrant while flagrant is obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).As a verb deflagrant
is .deflagrant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Gunpowder is a deflagrant (ie rapidly-burning) mixture of a solid fuel such as charcoal with a solid oxidising agent - the only one available up to the late 18th century was saltpetre.
flagrant
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Alternative forms
* flagraunt (qualifier)Etymology 1
From (etyl) flagrant, from (etyl) flagrantem, present participle of . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.