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nerve-wracking - extremely irritating to the nerves; nerve-racking noise; the stressful days before a war; a trying day at the office. nerve-racking, stressful, trying. disagreeable - not to your liking; a disagreeable situation.
Detonation (from Latin detonare, meaning to expend thunder) is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.nintentional detonation when deflagration is desired is a problem in some devices. In internal combustion engines it is called engine knocking or pinging or pinking, and it causes a loss of power and excessive heating of certain components. In firearms, it may cause catastrophic and potentially lethal failure.