brisant

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brisant (not comparable)

1. (of an explosion or explosive) Having a shattering effect.
   • 1893, Charles E. Munroe, Notes on the Literature of Explosives, No. XXIII, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Volume 18, page 123,

     The use of gun-cotton proper (trinitrocellulose) could not be thought of, owing to the brisant action of this body, but it was found that collodion-wool (dinitrocellulose, soluble gun-cotton), which was less brisant, could be converted into a nearly homogeneous mass which satisfied many of the requirements of a smoke-free powder, but it was still so brisant when used alone as to produce too high gas pressures and too irregular initial velocities.

   • 1959, Mitchel H. Bertram, William V. Feller, Memorandum 5-24-59L: A Simple Method for Determining Heat Transfer, Skin Friction, and Boundary-Layer Thickness for Hypersonic Laminar Boundary-Layer Flows in a Pressure Gradient, NASA, 5,

     At the start of the run a shattering or "brisant" detonation occurred in the line between the oxidant control valve (number 5, fig. 2(a)) and the oxidant tank. […] The propellant tank showed evidence of high internal pressure but no brisant detonation.

   • 1962, NAVWEPS OP [Ordnance Pamphlet] 2212: Demolition Materials, Bureau of Naval Weapons, page 6-12,

     Two charges should be used: a cratering charge, and a small charge of a brisant explosive.

   • 2016, Materials Analysis in Forensic Science,

     It is highly brisant with a VoD of 7300 ms-1 at a charge density of approximately 1.5 g cm-3.

• Briants

Borrowed from French brisant.

• IPA^(key): /briˈzɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: bri‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

brisant (comparative brisanter, superlative brisantst)

1. fast, snappy, explosive

• brisantbom
• brisantgranaat

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.zɑ̃/

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brisant

1. present participle of briser

• → English: brisance
• → German: brisant
• → German: Brisanz

brisant m (plural brisants)

1. reef
2. breaker (wave)

• “brisant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French brisant.

• IPA^(key): /bʁiˈzant/
• Rhymes: -ant

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brisant (strong nominative masculine singular brisanter, comparative brisanter, superlative am brisantesten)

1. controversial
2. volatile
3. (figuratively) explosive

• “brisant” in Duden online
• “brisant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache