<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable solid, C₇H₅N₃O₆, derived from toluene by nitration.</li><li>A high explosive unaffected by ordinary friction or shock, used chiefly in military and other explosive devices, and as an intermediate in the preparation of dye-stuffs and photographic chemicals.</li></ul>