Usually means: Collapse inward due to pressure.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. implosion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. implosion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. implosion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. implosion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. implosion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Implosion, implosion: Wordnik
  7. implosion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. implosion: Wiktionary
  9. implosion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. implosion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Implosion, implosion: Dictionary.com
  12. implosion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Implosion (mechanical process), Implosion (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Implosion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. implosion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. implosion: Rhymezone
  17. Implosion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. implosion: Free Dictionary
  19. implosion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. implosion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Implosion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. implosion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Implosion (disambiguation), implosion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Implosion (disambiguation), implosion: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Implosion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See implosions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
noun:  The action of imploding.
noun:  The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.
noun:  Violent compression.
noun:  A catastrophic failure; a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.

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