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BLAST WAVE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity

Example:

the explosion created a shock wave

Synonyms:

blast wave; shock wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("blast wave" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blast wave"):

sonic boom (an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound)

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