Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A projectile that, when dropped from an aircraft or fired through the air, releases explosive fragments over a wide area.
Wiktionary
- n. Explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Examples
“Toward the end I bring up the just-verified cluster bomb issue: What’s shocking and I would say to me, completely immoral, is that ninety percent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last seventy-two hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution, when we really knew there would be an end to this.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cluster bomb’.
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SEDE - technology+material+support
storage, smokeless, sensor, sandbag, resources, repeating, receiver, pellet, logistics, marker, interceptor, locator and 302 more...
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SEDE - weapons
bazooka, ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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Dis Wordz R Da Bomb
time bomb, hydrogen bomb, trucker bomb, bombardier, pipe bomb, smoke bomb, atom bomb, ticking time bomb, dirty bomb, carpet bomb, cluster bomb, bomblet and 34 more...
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