BLASTING CAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blasting cap mean? 

• BLASTING CAP (noun)
  The noun BLASTING CAP has 1 sense:

1. a small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives

  Familiarity information: BLASTING CAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTING CAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blasting cap" is a kind of...):

cap; detonating device; detonator (a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive)

Meronyms (parts of "blasting cap"):

fulminate of mercury; fulminating mercury; mercury fulminate (a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps)