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HIGH EXPLOSIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high explosive mean?
• HIGH EXPLOSIVE (noun)
The noun HIGH EXPLOSIVE has 1 sense:
1. a powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate
Familiarity information: HIGH EXPLOSIVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("high explosive" is a kind of...):
explosive (a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck)
W.M.D.; weapon of mass destruction; WMD (a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high explosive"):
bursting explosive; disrupting explosive (a high explosive that is used to damage the target that is under attack)
Antonym:
low explosive (an explosive with a low rate of combustion)
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