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ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB
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I. (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
Synonyms:
anti-personnel bomb; antipersonnel bomb; daisy cutter; fragmentation bomb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
