Usually means: Device that triggers an explosion.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. detonator: Merriam-Webster
  2. detonator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detonator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detonator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detonator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detonator, detonator: Wordnik
  7. detonator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detonator: Wiktionary
  9. detonator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detonator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detonator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Detonator, detonator: Dictionary.com
  13. detonator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Detonator (Worlds of Fun), Detonator (album), Detonator (disambiguation), Detonator (game), Detonator (railway), Detonator, The Detonator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Detonator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. detonator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. detonator: Rhymezone
  18. Detonator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. detonator: FreeDictionary.org
  20. detonator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. detonator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. detonator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. detonator: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonator: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonator: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
noun:  (rail transport, UK) A small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
noun:  (archaic) Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
noun:  (obsolete) A gun fired by a percussion cap.

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