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BURSTER
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Irregular inflected form: burster
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
Example:
this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
Synonyms:
burster; bursting charge; charge; explosive charge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("burster" is a kind of...):
explosive (a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burster"):
shot (an explosive charge used in blasting)
undercharge (an insufficient charge)
rocket fuel; rocket propellant; rocket propellent (an explosive charge that propels a rocket)
Derivation:
burst (burst outward, usually with noise)
