Usually means: Substance detonates, rapidly releases energy.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. high explosive: Merriam-Webster
  2. high explosive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high explosive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. high explosive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. high explosive: Vocabulary.com
  6. high-explosive: Wordnik
  7. high explosive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. high explosive: Wiktionary
  9. high explosive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. high explosive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. high-explosive, high explosive: Dictionary.com
  12. High Explosive (film), High Explosive, High-explosive, High explosive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. high explosive: Rhymezone
  14. high explosive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. high explosive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. high-explosive, high explosive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. high explosive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high explosive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high explosive: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (high explosive)

noun:  A chemical explosive capable of detonation rather than solely of deflagration; a chemical explosive capable of reacting at a sufficiently-fast rate to produce a shock wave which propagates the reaction throughout the explosive mass; a chemical explosive capable of producing an explosion even when unconfined.

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