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An inward collapse of a vessel, especially as a result of evacuation.

A technique of training or behavior modification in which an extreme version of a feared stimulus is applied and continued until the fear response is diminished.

• Principles of Mechanics, Waves, and Measurement - implosion: opposite of explosion, in which forces are directed inward

Implosion can refer to:

• Implosion (mechanical process)
• Implosion (novel), by D. F. Jones
• Building implosion
• Implosion-type nuclear weapon
• In phonetics, an airstream mechanism associated with implosive consonants
• Gravitational collapse (and more specifically, core collapse) in cosmology (see also: Type II supernova)

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