1 to fail suddenly and completely: --
an economy/industry/market implodes When contracts for the new bridge were being negotiated, the American steel industry imploded.
His campaign imploded during the summer amid charges of mismanagement and overspending.
We need the best system that we can get, without its imploding through too great expense.
She never heard from him again: the building imploded shortly afterwards.
In that incident, the tank that the tankers were filling up imploded, with a massive escape of acid gas.
The other escape was emitted from a tank that imploded.
Finally, a range of experiments have been per formed to generate quantitative radiation hydrodynamics data on the evolution of gross target defects, driven in both planar and imploding geometry.
The rings are thus conjectured to be from radiating plasma produced by either electron-current flow into the imploding plasma shell or an associated ion heating of the cathode sur face.
The accelerated ions hence deposit their kinetic energies and momenta in the cone tip and the low density imploded plasma before reaching the dense core.
The considered cases refer to imploding cylinders of finite length.
