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SONIC BOOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound
Example:
a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sonic boom" is a kind of...):
blast wave; shock wave (a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity)
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