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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The shattering effect of the sudden release of energy in an explosion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The shattering effect of the energy released in an explosion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion; -- used especially as a measure of such a shattering power, applied to high explosives.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion

Etymologies

  1. From French brisant, present participle of briser ("to break"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from brisant, present participle of briser, to break, from Old French brisier, from Vulgar Latin *brisiāre, perhaps of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • vara "One explanation was that half-filled acetylene tanks wrapped around the explosives not only served to enhance the brisance of the charge - the destructive fragmentation effect - but also to ensure the obliteration of the explosives along with the driver and detonator." Robert Baer, See No Evil, p67. Dec 8, 2006

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