different between detonation vs splitting

English

Etymology

From French détonation; equivalent to detonate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?t??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

detonation (countable and uncountable, plural detonations)

1. An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.

2. Engine knocking, an improper combustion in internal combustion engines

Antonyms

• (with respect to speed of propagation): deflagration

Hypernyms

• combustion
• decomposition

Derived terms

• carbon detonation
• pulse detonation engine
• rotating detonation engine

Related terms

• detonate
• detonator

Translations

Anagrams

• denotation, taeniodont

Danish

Noun

detonation c (singular definite detonationen, plural indefinite detonationer)

1. detonation

Declension

Further reading

• “detonation” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Noun

splitting (plural splittings)

1. An instance where something splits.
2. (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
   • 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin 2008, p. 308:

     In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting’.

3. (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

Derived terms

• fee splitting

Translations

Adjective

splitting (comparative more splitting, superlative most splitting)

1. Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
2. Very rapid.

   They moved at a splitting pace.

3. Severely painful.

   I have a splitting headache.

Verb

splitting

1. present participle of split

Anagrams

• spittling