explosive charge

1. 1.

   a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

   “this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains”

   Synonymschargebursterbursting charge

   Broaderexplosive

   Narrowershotunderchargerocket fuel

Questions about explosive charge

What does explosive charge mean?

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

What is another word for explosive charge?

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

explosive 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.