implosion(n.)
“一种向内猛烈爆裂或突然坍塌现象”,1829年首次使用,由explosion模仿而来,且融合了in- (2)“进入,向内,在......上”的前缀(源自PIE词根*en“在内部”)。
And to show how entire the neglect and confusion have been, they speak in the same breath of all these explosions, and of the explosion of a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, the result of which, instead of being a gas or an enlargement of bulk, a positive quantity, is a negative one. It is a vacuum, in a popular sense, because the produce is water. The result is an implosion (to coin a word), not an explosion .... ["Gas-light," Westminster Review, October 1829]
为了展示这种忽视和混乱到何种程度,他们同时提到各种爆炸,以及氢和氧的混合物的“爆炸”,其结果并不是产生气体或体积增大这样的正面量,而是一个负面量。从通俗的意义上讲,它是一个真空,因为生成物是水。结果是一个内爆(为了创造一个词),而不是爆炸...... [《煤气灯》,《威斯敏斯特评论》,1829年10月]
早期常用来指代深海压力的效应,或在语音学中的应用。比喻意义自1960年起出现。
该词起源时间:1829年