superexplosion

English

Alternative forms

• super explosion
• super-explosion

Etymology

From super- +‎ explosion.

Noun

superexplosion (plural superexplosions)

1. A particularly large or intense explosion (in any sense).
   • 1979, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, (Chapter 4. Xenology: The Context of the Universe)[1]

     The energy corresponds to a constant, uniform temperature of 2.7 K. This actual relic of the primeval ylem superexplosion strongly affirms the Big Bang theories, and appears to verify the Cosmological Principle mentioned earlier.

   • 1986, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.), Gaseous Halos of Galaxies‎^[2], National Radio Astronomy Observatory, page 88:

     These are the criteria required to consider the N individual explosions to act in concert as a single superexplosion.

   • 2000, Mikhail Vasilyev, Kirill Stanyukovich, Matter and Man‎^[3], University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 154:

     Nebulae hurled apart by a titanic superexplosion swirl in huge eddies, whirlpools of galaxies race apart, planetary systems are born, gaseous nebulae and galactic systems collide.