fragmentation bomb

Questions about fragmentation bomb

What does fragmentation bomb mean?

fragmentation bomb means "a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles".

What is another word for fragmentation bomb?

Close synonyms include antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb, daisy cutter. 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 fragmentation bomb a common word?

fragmentation 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.