Pyrotechny

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The management and mechanical application of fire.
  • noun. The fabrication of fireworks for military and ornamental purposes (see firework, 2); the composition and scientific use of combustible substances employed as signals, as destructive agents, or for purposes of display.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The use and application of fire in science and the arts.
  • noun. Same as Pyrotechnics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The manufacture and use of fireworks.
  • noun. The use of fire in chemistry and metallurgy.
  • noun. The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the craft of making fireworks
  • Word Usage
    "Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, “Very superior pyrotechny this evening”?"
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