EXPLODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exploded mean? 

• EXPLODED (adjective)
  The adjective EXPLODED has 1 sense:

1. showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another

  Familiarity information: EXPLODED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPLODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another

Context example:

the manufacturer provided an exploded view of the apparatus

Similar:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

 Context examples 

Mobile phones came into our countries in 1994, their use exploded in '94, '95 let's say 2000.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

"You damn beasts!" he finally exploded, and went back to his task.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Last year, a Falcon 9 exploded on a Florida launchpad during a preflight test.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)

During that time, the storm exploded through the clouds, eventually winding its way around Saturn.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

Neutron stars are the crushed, leftover cores of massive stars that previously exploded as supernovas long ago.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In 2011, two of these massive stars, called red supergiants, exploded while in Kepler's view.

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

Pulsars were previously massive stars that exploded in powerful supernovae, leaving behind these small, dense stellar corpses.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

I pressed Traddles into the service without his knowledge; and whenever he came to see us, exploded my mines upon him for the edification of Dora at second hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)