eruption

See also: Eruption and éruption

English

Etymology

From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹʌpʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌpʃən

Noun

eruption (countable and uncountable, plural eruptions)

1. A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

   a volcanic eruption

2. A sudden release of pressure or tension.

   There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.

3. An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
   • 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 15:

     Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?

5. An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

Hyponyms

• bozo eruption
• creeping eruption
• effusive eruption
• explosive eruption
• fissure eruption
• flank eruption
• Hawaiian eruption
• lateral eruption
• limnic eruption
• Peléan eruption
• phreatic eruption
• Plinian eruption
• steam-blast eruption
• Strombolian eruption
• subaerial eruption
• subglacial eruption
• submarine eruption
• subplinian eruption
• supereruption
• Surtseyan eruption
• ultraplinian eruption
• ultravulcanian eruption
• Vesuvian eruption
• Vulcanian eruption

 

Derived terms

• bimbo eruption
• eruption column

 

Translations

violent ejection, such as that of lava from a volcano

• Armenian: ժայթքում (hy) (žaytʻkʻum)
• Asturian: erupción (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: püskürmə
• Belarusian: вывяржэ́нне n (vyvjaržénnje)
• Bikol Central: pagtuga
• Bulgarian: изригване n (izrigvane)
• Catalan: erupció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴發／喷发 (zh) (pēnfā), 爆發／爆发 (zh) (bàofā), 噴出／喷出 (zh) (pēnchū)

• Dutch: uitbarsting (nl) f
• Esperanto: erupcio
• Faroese: gos n
• Finnish: purkaus (fi)
• French: éruption (fr) f
• Galician: erupción (gl) f
• Georgian: ამოფრქვევა (amoprkveva)
• German: Eruption (de) f, Ausbruch (de) m, Vulkanausbruch (de) m
• Greek: έκρηξη (el) (ékrixi)

  Ancient: ἀναχοή (anakhoḗ)

• Hungarian: kitörés (hu)
• Icelandic: gos (is) n
• Indonesian: erupsi (id)
• Irish: brúchtadh m
• Italian: eruzione (it) f
• Japanese: 噴火 (ja) (ふんか, funka), 噴出 (ja) (ふんしゅつ, funshutsu)
• Kapampangan: akbung
• Korean: 분화 (ko) (bunhwa), 분출 (ko) (bunchul)
• Latin: eruptio f
• Malay: letusan
• Maori: hūnga
• Occitan: erupcion (oc) f
• Persian: فوران (fa) (favarân)
• Polish: erupcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: erupção (pt) f
• Romanian: erupere (ro) f, erupție (ro) f
• Russian: изверже́ние (ru) n (izveržénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: maoim f
• Serbo-Croatian: erupcija (sh) f, ерупција f
• Spanish: erupción (es) f
• Swedish: utbrott (sv) n, vulkanutbrott (sv) n, eruption (sv) c
• Tetum: erupsaun
• Tongan: laku
• Turkish: patlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́верження n (výveržennja), ви́бух m (výbux)
• Welsh: echdoriad m

sudden release of pressure or tension

• Armenian: ժայթքում (hy) (žaytʻkʻum)
• Bulgarian: изблик (bg) m (izblik)
• Dutch: uitbarsting (nl) f
• Finnish: purkaus (fi)
• German: Ausbruch (de) m
• Polish: erupcja (pl) f
• Russian: взрыв (ru) m (vzryv)

infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing

• Asturian: erupción (ast) f
• Bulgarian: обрив (bg) m (obriv)
• Catalan: erupció (ca) f
• Dutch: huiduitslag (nl) m
• Finnish: tulehdus (fi)
• Galician: erupción (gl) f
• Indonesian: erupsi (id)
• Occitan: erupcion (oc) f
• Romanian: erupție (ro) f
• Russian: сыпь (ru) f (sypʹ)

Interlingua

Noun

eruption (plural eruptiones)

1. eruption, outbreak