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PYROTECHNICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyrotechnics mean? 

PYROTECHNICS (noun)
  The noun PYROTECHNICS has 2 senses:

1. (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music)play

2. the craft of making fireworksplay

  Familiarity information: PYROTECHNICS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PYROTECHNICS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pyrotechnics" is a kind of...):

brilliance; genius (unusual mental ability)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The craft of making fireworks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pyrotechnics; pyrotechny

Hypernyms ("pyrotechnics" is a kind of...):

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Derivation:

pyrotechnical (of or relating to the craft of making fireworks)


 Context examples 


A complete device charged with explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, initiating composition, or nuclear, biological, or chemical material for use in military operations, including demolitions.

(Munition, NCI Thesaurus)

As he glanced from Jo to several other young people, attracted by the brilliancy of the philosophic pyrotechnics, he knit his brows and longed to speak, fearing that some inflammable young soul would be led astray by the rockets, to find when the display was over that they had only an empty stick or a scorched hand.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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