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outburst(2)(dictionary)
outburst(dictionary)

outburst(1) (iou)



outburst noun. M17.
[from OUT- + BURST noun.]
An act of bursting out; a (violent) eruption; an outbreak or explosion of emotion, speech, action, etc. M17.
Nature A new outburst of activity which culminated..with G?del's incompleteness theorem. S. Hastings Victor Cunard..retaliating with a furious outburst. J. Uglow Marian responded to this warm feminist outburst.
b. Astronomy. An intense solar radio emission of several minutes' duration which occurs in conjunction with a solar flare. M20.
Geology. An outcrop of a stratum, esp. a coal seam. Now rare or obsolete. E18.