Pyrotechnics
[paɪrə(ʊ)'teknɪks] or [,pɪəro'tɛknɪks]
Definition
(noun.) the craft of making fireworks.
(noun.) (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music).
Edited by Julius--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pyrotechny.
Edited by Karl
Definition
n. the art of making fireworks: the use and application of fireworks—also Py′rotechny.—adjs. Pyrotech′nic -al pertaining to fireworks.—n. Pyrotech′nist a maker of fireworks: one skilled in pyrotechny.
Edited by Harold
Examples
- Their success was immediate, and from these displays has grown the successes of today in pyrotechnics. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We could make some very good pyrotechnics there, so we determined to give the Indians a scare. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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