0 past simple and past participle of ignite
1 to (cause to) start burning or explode:
The fuel spontaneously ignites because of the high temperature and pressure.
The proposed restrictions have ignited a storm of protest.
However, rather than contain clashes, these actions ignited more conflagrations.
Thermonuclear burn performance of volumeignited and centrally ignited bare deuterium-tritium microspheres.
Once the discharge has been ignited, however, the electron-ion inverse bremsstrahlung process is dominant.
None of their efforts prevented him from unwittingly lighting the fuse which by 1570 had ignited the presbyterian campaigns of the following twenty years.
In the next stage the compressed fuel is ignited by another beam.
Here a propellant is assumed to be ignited when the surface reaches a prescribed 'ignition temperature'.
The high explosive is arranged in a layered zigzag pattern, ignited from both sides with triggered flash lamps.
The deuterium tritium pellet is first precompressed by a laser without being ignited.
