magnetic mine

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   (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)

   Broaderfloating mine

   ship

Questions about magnetic mine

What does magnetic mine mean?

magnetic mine means "(nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)".

Is magnetic mine a common word?

magnetic mine 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.