Pyrotechnics

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pyrotechnics \Pyr`o*tech"nics\, n.
     The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of
     fireworks; pyrotechny.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pyrotechnics
       n 1: (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of
            music)
       2: the craft of making fireworks [syn: {pyrotechny}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "pyrotechnics":
     calorimetry, debating, declamation, demagogism, elocution,
     eloquence, firework, fireworks, forensics, homiletics, lecturing,
     oratory, platform oratory, public speaking, pyrotechnic,
     pyrotechny, rabble-rousing, rhetoric, speaking, speechcraft,
     speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stump speaking,
     thermochemistry, thermodynamics, thermotics, wordcraft