detonator

detonate +‎ -or

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

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, Britain) a small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
3. (archaic) Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
4. (obsolete) A gun fired by a percussion cap.

• (rail transport): torpedo (US)

• detonate
• detonation

• (device for detonating explosives): blasting cap

• denotator, rattooned, tetraodon

detonator c (singular definite detonatoren, plural indefinite detonatorer)

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detonator m (plural detonators, diminutive detonatortje n)

1. detonator.

dētonātor

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