ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antipersonnel bomb mean? 

• ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB (noun)
  The noun ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB has 1 sense:

1. a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles

  Familiarity information: ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

anti-personnel bomb; antipersonnel bomb; daisy cutter; fragmentation bomb

Hypernyms ("antipersonnel bomb" is a kind of...):

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antipersonnel bomb"):

Big Blue; BLU-82 (a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan)

Holonyms ("antipersonnel bomb" is a part of...):

cluster bomb (bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area)