explosive unit

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   any unit for measuring the force of explosions

   Broaderunit of measurement

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Questions about explosive unit

What does explosive unit mean?

explosive unit means "any unit for measuring the force of explosions".

Is explosive unit a common word?

explosive unit 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.