microwave bomb

1. 1.

   a bomb that explodes in midair and releases a massive burst of electromagnetic energy sufficient to disable computers and telecommunications without killing people or damaging buildings

   SynonymsE-bomb

   Broaderbomb

Questions about microwave bomb

What does microwave bomb mean?

microwave bomb means "a bomb that explodes in midair and releases a massive burst of electromagnetic energy sufficient to disable computers and telecommunications without killing people or damaging buildings".

What is another word for microwave bomb?

Close synonyms include E-bomb. 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 microwave bomb a common word?

microwave 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.