DEFLAGRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deflagration mean? 

• DEFLAGRATION (noun)
  The noun DEFLAGRATION has 1 sense:

1. combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat

  Familiarity information: DEFLAGRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFLAGRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("deflagration" is a kind of...):

burning; combustion (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)

Derivation:

deflagrate (burn with great heat and intense light)

deflagrate (cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity)