noun
Meaning 1
A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fuze, fuse
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
detonator
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdɛt.ə.neɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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UK: /ˈdɛtn̩eɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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noun
Meaning 2
A small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: torpedo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A gun fired by a percussion cap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: detonating device, cap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: explosive device
Narrower terms: blasting cap, percussion cap
History
Etymology
From detonate + -or.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: detonador — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Belarusian: дэтана́тар (detanátar) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Bulgarian: детона́тор (detonátor) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Bulgarian: запалка (zapalka) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Catalan: detonador — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Chinese Mandarin: 雷管 (léiguǎn) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Czech: rozbuška — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Czech: detonátor — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Danish: detonator — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Dutch: detonator — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Dutch: ontsteker — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Finnish: sytytin — device used to detonate an explosive device
- French: détonateur — device used to detonate an explosive device
- French: capsule fulminante — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Galician: detonador — device used to detonate an explosive device
- German: Zünder — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Hindi: विस्फोटक (visphoṭak) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Hungarian: detonátor — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Hungarian: gyutacs — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Hungarian: gyújtó — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Hungarian: gyújtószerkezet — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Italian: detonatore — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Japanese: 雷管 (raikan) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Korean: 뇌관 (noegwan) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Polish: detonator — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Portuguese: detonador — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Romanian: detonator — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Russian: детона́тор (detonátor) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Russian: ка́псюль-детона́тор (kápsjulʹ-detonátor) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Russian: запа́л (zapál) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Spanish: detonador — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Spanish: detonante — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Swedish: detonator — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Tagalog: pandiklap — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Turkish: fünye — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Ukrainian: детона́тор (detonátor) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Ukrainian: підривни́к (pidryvnýk) — device used to detonate an explosive device
- Chinese Mandarin: 響墩 /响墩 (xiǎngdūn) — rail transport: small explosive warning device
- Czech: třaskavka — rail transport: small explosive warning device
- Russian: железнодоро́жная пета́рда (železnodoróžnaja petárda) — rail transport: small explosive warning device
- Russian: пета́рда (petárda) — rail transport: small explosive warning device
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