explosive ball

One having a bursting-charge which is ignited on concu ion or by a time-fuse. [SHELL.] ěx-plō-sive-ly, adv. [Eng. explosive; -ly.] In an explosive manner; by way of explosion. *ex-po-li-a-tion, s. [Lat. expoliatio , exspolia tio , from expoliatus , exspoliatus , pa. par. of expolio , exspolio to plunder, to pillage: ex out, fully, and spolio to plunder, to spoil.] The act of spoiling, robbing, or plundering; spoliation. *ex-pol-Ish, v . t . [Pref. ex (intens.), and Eng. polish (q. v.); Lat. expolio .] To polish with extra *ěx-pō'ne, v . t. [Lat. expo no =to set out; to ex care. IMG:content-1287.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small] (1) One who expounds or explains anything; an explainer, an expositor; as, the exponent of a doc trine or theory. (2) In the same sense as II. 2. Fig .: One who stands or is set forward as the index or representative of a party, sect, .; one who a umes or undertakes a character. "One or two characters were imperfectly rendered by the exponents." -Athenœum. II. Alg .: A number written to the right of and above a quantity to show how many times it is to be taken as a factor; thus, in the expre ion a3 , the number 3 is an exponent, and shows that a is to be taken three times as a factor. The expre ion a3 is equivalent to axaxa, and is read a cube. The exponent is properly the exponent of the power, but for simplicity it is often called the exponent of the quantity. The term is applied to any quantity written on the right of and above a quantity,