aerosol bomb

Questions about aerosol bomb

What does aerosol bomb mean?

aerosol bomb means "a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for aerosol bomb?

Close synonyms include thermobaric bomb, fuel-air bomb, vacuum bomb, volume-detonation bomb, aerosol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aerosol bomb a common word?

aerosol bomb is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.