implosion

See also: Implosion and implosión

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English explosion

English implosion

From in- + explosion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpləʊʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (General American):

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Noun

implosion (countable and uncountable, plural implosions)

1. The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
2. The action of imploding.
3. The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.
4. Violent compression.
5. A catastrophic failure; a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.

Antonyms

• explosion

Derived terms

• implode
• implosion bomb

Translations

action of imploding

• Catalan: implosió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內爆 / 内爆 (zh) (nèibào), 爆縮 / 爆缩 (bàosuō)

• Finnish: imploosio (fi), luhistuminen (fi)
• French: implosion (fr) f
• Galician: implosión f
• Georgian: იმპლოზია (imṗlozia)
• German: Implosion f
• Hindi: अंत:स्फोट (ant:sphoṭ)
• Ido: implozo (io)
• Italian: implosione (it) f
• Japanese: 爆縮 (ばくしゅく, bakushuku), 内破 (ないは, naiha)
• Kazakh: имплозия (ıymplozıya)
• Malayalam: അവസ്ഫോടനം (avasphōṭanaṁ)
• Occitan: implosion f
• Polish: implozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: implosão (pt) f
• Romanian: implozie (ro) f
• Russian: импло́зия (ru) f (implózija), (вну́тренний) взрыв (ru) m (vzryv)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝмпло̄зија f

  Latin: ìmplōzija (sh) f

• Spanish: implosión (es) f
• Ukrainian: імплозія f (implozija), вибух m (vybux) (спрямований всередину)

Further reading

• “implosion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “implosion”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026
• “implosion”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “implosion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “implosion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From im- +‎ (ex)plosion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.plo.zjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

implosion f (plural implosions)

1. implosion

   Antonym: explosion

Further reading

• “implosion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

implosion c

1. implosion

   Antonym: explosion

2. (figuratively) implosion (collapse (of something abstract))

Declension

Declension of implosion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	implosion	implosions
	definite	implosionen	implosionens
plural	indefinite	implosioner	implosioners
	definite	implosionerna	implosionernas

Related terms

• implodera

References

• “implosion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)