superexplosion

English

Alternative forms
  • super explosion
  • super-explosion

Etymology

super- +‎ explosion

Noun

superexplosion (plural superexplosions)

  1. A particularly large or intense explosion (in any sense).
    • 1979, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, (Chapter 4. Xenology: The Context of the Universe)
      The energy corresponds to a constant, uniform temperature of 2.7 K. This actual relic of the primeval ylem superexplosion strongly affirms the Big Bang theories, and appears to verify the Cosmological Principle mentioned earlier.
    • 1986, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.), Gaseous Halos of Galaxies‎, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, page 88:
      These are the criteria required to consider the N individual explosions to act in concert as a single superexplosion.
    • 2000, Mikhail Vasilyev, Kirill Stanyukovich, Matter and Man‎, University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 154:
      Nebulae hurled apart by a titanic superexplosion swirl in huge eddies, whirlpools of galaxies race apart, planetary systems are born, gaseous nebulae and galactic systems collide.
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