Associations to the word «Implosion»

Wiktionary

IMPLOSION, noun. The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
IMPLOSION, noun. The action of imploding.
IMPLOSION, noun. The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.

Dictionary definition

IMPLOSION, noun. A sudden inward collapse; "the implosion of a light bulb".
IMPLOSION, noun. The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope