atomic bomb

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.