Usually means: Substances that detonate or combust rapidly.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. explosives: Merriam-Webster
  2. explosives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. explosives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Explosives, explosives: Wordnik
  5. explosives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. explosives: Wiktionary
  7. explosives: Dictionary.com
  8. explosives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Explosives, The Explosives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Explosives: Legal dictionary

(Note: See explosive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (explosive)

adjective:  Able to, or likely to, explode.
adjective:  Having the character of an explosion.
adjective:  (cellular automata) Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
adjective:  (figurative) Rapidly accelerating.
adjective:  (figurative) Shocking; startling.
adjective:  (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
adjective:  (phonetics, archaic) Synonym of plosive
noun:  Any explosive substance.
noun:  (linguistics, dated) A plosive.
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