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ignition

[ig-nish-uhn] / ɪgˈnɪʃ ən /


NOUN
detonation
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Over one-third of accountants charged a fixed fee, according to a survey from Ignition, an operations platform for service-based businesses.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates such plasmas by directing 192 powerful laser beams onto hydrogen-containing targets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

This work received support from programs including the USyd-NUS Ignition Grant and the Duke-NUS Parkinson's Research Fund through a generous donation by The Ida C. Morris Falk Foundation.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

Students and staff change classrooms during a break at Ignition Lab, part of Operation Breakthrough, with a painting of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on the wall at right.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

"Ignition sequence start." "... three . . . two . . . one . . ." Clamps released, the booster rose amid a plume of smoke and fire, slowly at first, then racing ever faster.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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