bursting charge

Questions about bursting charge

What does bursting charge mean?

bursting charge means "a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time".

What is another word for bursting charge?

Close synonyms include charge, burster, explosive charge. 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 bursting charge a common word?

bursting charge 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.