"implosion" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪmˈpləʊʒən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-implosion.wav Forms: implosions [plural]
Etymology: From in- + explosion. Etymology templates: {{af|en|in-|explosion}} in- + explosion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} implosion (countable and uncountable, plural implosions)
  1. The inrush of air in forming a suction stop. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. The action of imploding. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (action of imploding): implosió [feminine] (Catalan), 內爆 (Chinese Mandarin), 内爆 (nèibào) (Chinese Mandarin), 爆縮 (Chinese Mandarin), 爆缩 (bàosuō) (Chinese Mandarin), imploosio (Finnish), luhistuminen (Finnish), implosion [feminine] (French), implosión [feminine] (Galician), იმპლოზია (imṗlozia) (Georgian), Implosion [feminine] (German), अंत:स्फोट (ant:sphoṭ) (Hindi), implozo (Ido), implosione [feminine] (Italian), 爆縮 (bakushuku) (alt: ばくしゅく) (Japanese), 内破 (naiha) (alt: ないは) (Japanese), имплозия (imploziä) (Kazakh), അവസ്ഫോടനം (avasphōṭanaṁ) (Malayalam), implosion [feminine] (Occitan), implozja [feminine] (Polish), implosão [feminine] (Portuguese), импло́зия (implózija) [feminine] (Russian), взрыв (vzryv) (alt: вну́тренний) [masculine] (Russian), ѝмпло̄зија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ìmplōzija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), implosión [feminine] (Spanish), імплозія (implozija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), вибух (vybux) (alt: спрямований всередину) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  3. The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. Violent compression. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  5. A catastrophic failure; a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: implode, implosion bomb

Inflected forms

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