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EXPLODED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another
Example:
the manufacturer provided an exploded view of the apparatus
Classified under:
Similar:
unconnected (not joined or linked together)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb explode
Context examples:
When the star that created this supernova remnant exploded in 1572, it was so bright that it was visible during the day.
(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)
"Gee!" Joe exploded, then waited in silence for the deduction to arise in his brain. At last it came.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Because of their large masses and great ages, these clusters are thought to have produced a large number of stellar-mass black holes — created as massive stars within them exploded and collapsed over the long lifetime of the cluster.
(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)
The researchers noted the sevengill sharks might not have the same effect on the ecosystems involved as the great whites have had, citing the ecological disruption apparently caused off Alaska when a change in orca behavior had a knock-on effect, disrupting sea otters' predation of sea urchins, whose population then exploded, plowing through the area's kelp forests.
(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has found evidence that a massive star exploded in a lopsided fashion, sending ejected material flying in one direction and the core of the star in the other.
(Star Explosion is Lopsided, NASA)
This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"What!" the dog-musher exploded.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
