different between pyrotechnic vs thunderflash

English

Etymology

From Latin pyrotechnica, from Ancient Greek ??? (pûr, “fire”) + ???????? (tekhnikós, “skillful, workmanlike”). Analyzable as pyro- +? technic

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pa??o??t?kn?k/
• Hyphenation: py?ro?tech?nic

Adjective

pyrotechnic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to fireworks.
2. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
3. Resembling fireworks.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 178:

     They had spent much of June and July walking about the plateau near Poronin and discussing Kuba’s pyrotechnic schemes for making money. Possibly because of his bourgeois origins, Hanecki had a remarkable financial flair, and extraordinary grasp of money matters—a quality as valuable as it was rare in a revolutionary.
4. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

Translations

Anagrams

• necrophytic, nephrocytic

English

Etymology

thunder +? flash

Noun

thunderflash (plural thunderflashes)

1. (military) A pyrotechnic device that generates a loud noise, used to simulate battlefield conditions.