(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of borderline personality disorder.

Alternative form of explosive gelatin

A powerful explosive made by gently heating nitroglycerin in a water-bath, then dissolving guncotton in it.

plural of explosion shot

(golf) A powerful stroke that blasts the ball out of a bunker.

(meteorology) A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.

plural of explosive cyclogenesis

(logic) The principle or axiom of classical logic and some other logical systems stating that if a contradiction or a false proposition is proven to be true, then it proves that everything is true. In symbols: ⊥→P

A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.

Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene, used in mining.