Detonate

det′o-nāt, v.i. to explode.— v.t. to cause to explode.— ns. Detonā′tion , an explosion with report; Det′on at or , a detonating substance: an apparatus for the explosion of a detonating substance, as a percu ion-cap.— Detonating powder , powder, such as the fulminates, which explodes easily by impact or heating, and which may be used to cause other substances to explode. [L. detonāre , -ātum — de , down, and tonāre , to thunder.]