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/fˈaɪərbˌɔl/ /fˈaɪrbˌɔl/ Listen

Fireball

noun

An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding). Synonym: bolide.

A highly energetic and indefatigable person. Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse.

A ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning).

The luminous center of a nuclear explosion.

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"Fireball" Quotes from Famous Books

... this was absolutely all they could do! Hardly three minutes had elapsed since Ardan had caught the first glimpse of it—three ages of agony! Now it was on them! In a second—in less than a second, the terrible fireball had burst like a shell! Thousands of glittering fragments were flying around them in all directions—but with no more noise than is made by so many light flakes of thistle-down floating about some warm afternoon in summer. The blinding, blasting steely white glare of the explosion almost ...

— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... closer than 9,150 meters to ground zero at the time of the detonation. With the exception of a few men holding the ropes of barrage balloons or guiding cameras to follow the fireball as it ascended, all shelter personnel were in or behind the shelters. Some left the shelters after the initial flash to view the fireball. As a precautionary measure, they had been advised to lie on the ground before the blast wave arrived. ...

— Project Trinity 1945-1946 • Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer

Words linked to "Fireball" : nuclear explosion, actor, globe, worker, orb, self-starter, meteor, ball, atomic explosion, doer, shooting star