Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The shattering effect of the sudden release of energy in an explosion.
Wiktionary
- n. The shattering effect of the energy released in an explosion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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
- n. the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion
Etymologies
- French, from brisant, present participle of briser, to break, from Old French brisier, from Vulgar Latin *brisiāre, perhaps of Celtic origin.
Examples
“This is supposed to be 30% more powerful than dynamite containing 60% nitroglycerin, and has 30% more brisance.”
“It isn't exactly strength or hardness or toughness or resilience or brisance -- maybe a combination of all five.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brisance’.
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Words beginning with B
birefringence, bureau, blot, barter, beyond, blunder, byre, byrgius, bowl, baste, bastardsawed, bastel house and 44 more...
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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