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prettygoodwordbrisance (bri-ZHANZ) - n., the shattering effect of the sudden energy release of a high explosive.
Or so most dictionaries -- Wikipedia gets a little more interesting: "the shattering capability of an explosive. It is a measure of the rapidity with which an explosive develops its maximum pressure." Borrowed in the early 1910s from French, from briser, to break, from Old French brisier, from a Celtic root either directly or via a hypothesized Latin intermediary.
---L.
Or so most dictionaries -- Wikipedia gets a little more interesting: "the shattering capability of an explosive. It is a measure of the rapidity with which an explosive develops its maximum pressure." Borrowed in the early 1910s from French, from briser, to break, from Old French brisier, from a Celtic root either directly or via a hypothesized Latin intermediary.
---L.
