SONIC BOOM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound

Example:

a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sonic boom" is a kind of...):

blast wave; shock wave (a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity)

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