atomic bomb

1. 1.

   a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)

   Synonymsatom bombA-bombfission bombplutonium bomb

   Broadernuclear weaponbomb

   Narrowerclean bombdirty bombneutron bomb

   Partsplutonium trigger

Questions about atomic bomb

What does atomic bomb mean?

atomic bomb means "a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)".

What is another word for atomic bomb?

Close synonyms include atom bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb. 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 atomic bomb a common word?

atomic bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.