Usually means: Sudden, explosive release of energy.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. eruption: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. eruption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eruption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eruption: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eruption: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eruption, eruption: Wordnik
  7. eruption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eruption: Wiktionary
  9. eruption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eruption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eruption: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eruption: Dictionary.com
  13. eruption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eruption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eruption (German band), Eruption (Van Halen), Eruption (album), Eruption (band), Eruption (disambiguation), Eruption (film), Eruption (instrumental), Eruption (song), Eruption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eruption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eruption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eruption: Rhymezone
  19. Eruption (f), eruption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eruption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. eruption: Free Dictionary
  22. eruption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eruption: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. eruption: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eruption: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. eruption: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. eruption: Dictionary of Geology
  3. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eruption)

noun:  A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
noun:  A sudden release of pressure or tension.
noun:  An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
noun:  An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

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