a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle; "he knocked on the door"; "he slammed the door as he left"
a room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"
a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road); "the office next door"; "they live two doors up the street from us"
anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"
a seizure (or a type of epilepsy characterized by such seizures) of short duration characterized by momentary unconsciousness and local muscle spasms or twitching
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve"
a multiplicative increase; "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"
the act of exploding or bursting something; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"
a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
a sudden outburst; "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage"
a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
the noise caused by an explosion; "the explosion was heard a mile away"
a sudden great increase; "the population explosion"; "the information explosion"