EXPLOSIVE DEVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does explosive device mean? 

• EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (noun)
  The noun EXPLOSIVE DEVICE has 1 sense:

1. device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy

  Familiarity information: EXPLOSIVE DEVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("explosive device" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Meronyms (parts of "explosive device"):

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 "explosive device"):

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

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)

FAE; fuel-air explosive (a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below)

I.E.D.; IED; improvised explosive device (an explosive device that is improvised)

mine (explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel)

petard (an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall)

seal bomb (a small explosive device (resembling a firecracker) that is used underwater in order to frighten mammals away from fishing grounds)

shoe bomb (an explosive device concealed inside the heel and sole of a shoe)

torpedo (a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead)

torpedo (an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas))

 Context examples 

An explosive device comprised of carbon nanotubes.

(Nanobomb, NCI Thesaurus)