Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sympathetic detonation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English

Syllables: sym-pa-thet-ic det-o-na-tion
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Detonation of an explosive triggered by the explosion of another quantity of explosive adjacent to it.

Inflected Forms

sympathetic detonations (plural)

Questions

What does sympathetic detonation mean?: Detonation of an explosive triggered by the explosion of another quantity of explosive adjacent to it.

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