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exploded

exploded

6.8
A drawing with parts pulled apart and arranged so you can see how they fit together
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈsploʊdɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : explosionado
  • To understand the engine better, we used an exploded view that showed how each component fit together.

Examples

  • So this is an exploded view of how to operate the Intel mounting hardware.

  • I'm going to finish on an animation of the mechanism, which is an exploded diagram which comes together to form the mechanism.

  • All right, so step one here is is I'm going to pass I'm assuming that this table is bound to one of these exploded transpose pairs.

  • The manual included an exploded diagram that clearly displayed all the parts of the machine.

  • In the presentation, she showed an exploded illustration of the architecture, highlighting its main sections.

How Separated

exploded
  • Specialized
6.8
unassembled
1 3.8

Surface Forms

exploded positive

Morphology

exploded = explode (transparent) = explode + ed

Formed from the past participle of 'explode' with '-ed'; the adjectival meaning 'separated as if exploded' is inferable from the verb.

Etymology

Exploded comes from the verb explode, built from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and plaudere 'to hit', which gives the image of bursting or being pushed out. So an exploded view is a drawing where the parts are pushed out from the whole so you can clearly see how they fit together.