Artillery and Detonation

Artillery

Artillery noun - Large firearms (as cannon or rockets).

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Detonation and artillery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Detonation" instead a noun "Artillery".

Nearby Word: artillerist

Detonation noun - The act or an instance of exploding.

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Artillery and detonation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Artillery" instead a noun "Detonation".

proper	proper artillery	proper detonation
actual	actual artillery	actual detonation
real	real artillery	real detonation
large	large artillery	large detonation
Other adjectives: big, early, magical, nuclear, soviet.

Nowadays, artillery has been abandoned by the Guard in favor of the much more effective and cheaply available detonation spells.

Source: Just For Fun / Ponies with Pikes
The Fragmentation Bomb Launcher plays it when it fragments, Flak Artillery Arrays play it upon detonation, Cluster Flak plays it multiple times, capital ships play it when they explode, and so on.

Source: Limited Sound Effects
I Love Nuclear Power was once embraced by NATO: There were nuclear warheads for artillery, nuclear depth charges and even the "Special Atomic Detonation Munition" (the famous backpack nuke; the final plot twist of the first Splinter Cell game was that the Big Bad had one of these).

Source: I Love Nuclear Power

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