pyrotechnic

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/

Adjective

pyrotechnic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to fireworks.
2. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
3. Resembling fireworks.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 178:

     They had spent much of June and July walking about the plateau near Poronin and discussing Kuba’s pyrotechnic schemes for making money. Possibly because of his bourgeois origins, Hanecki had a remarkable financial flair, and extraordinary grasp of money matters—a quality as valuable as it was rare in a revolutionary.

4. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

Translations

• French: pyrotechnique
• Russian: пиротехни́ческий
• Spanish: pirotécnico

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