explosive
Able to, or likely to, explode.
Example
“an explosive device”
Other meanings
Having the character of an explosion.
“an explosive fire”
Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
Related words
- autoexplosive
- cryptoexplosive
- electroexplosive
- explosively
- explosiveness
- inexplosive
- microexplosive
- nonexplosive
- superexplosive
- superexplosively
- unexplosive
- contact explosive
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “explosive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.