detonator

detonate +‎ -or

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt.ə.neɪ.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɛtn̩eɪ.tə(ɹ)/

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Three types of detonators for detonating explosive devices

In rail transport a detonator is an explosive device that provides an audible warning

detonator (plural detonators)

1. A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
2. (rail transport, UK) a small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
   • 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough Derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:

     Warning messages were relayed to the signalmen at Slough East and Dolphin Junction boxes with such celerity that the up main signals were replaced to danger in front of the express before it finally stopped. The signalman at Dolphin Junction just had time to replace the down main signals and pull the emergency lever to lay detonators in front of the fast approaching 7 p.m. Paddington-Reading train.

3. (archaic) Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
4. (obsolete) A gun fired by a percussion cap.

• (rail transport): torpedo (US)

• pencil detonator

• detonate
• detonation

• (device for detonating explosives): blasting cap

• denotator, rattooned, tetraodon

• IPA^(key): [detoˈnæːtʌ]

detonator c (singular definite detonatoren, plural indefinite detonatorer)

1. detonator (device used to detonate an explosive device)

• “detonator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Probably borrowed from English detonator.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.toːˈnaː.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: de‧to‧na‧tor
• Rhymes: -aːtɔr

detonator m (plural detonators, diminutive detonatortje n)

1. detonator.

• detoneren

• → Indonesian: detonator

From Dutch detonator, from English detonator.

• IPA^(key): [d̪et̪oˈnat̪ɔr]
• Hyphenation: dé‧to‧na‧tor

detonator, détonator (plural detonator-detonator, first-person possessive detonatorku, second-person possessive detonatormu, third-person possessive detonatornya)

1. detonator: a device used to detonate an explosive device etc.

• “detonator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

dētonātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dētonō

Borrowed from French détonateur. By surface analysis, detonacja +‎ -ator.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.tɔˈna.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: de‧to‧na‧tor

detonator m inan

1. detonator (a device used to detonate an explosive device etc.)

• detonator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French détonateur.

detonator n (plural detonatoare)

1. detonator