vacuum bomb

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   a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive

   “a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb”

   Synonymsthermobaric bombfuel-air bombvolume-detonation bombaerosol bomb

   Broaderbombfuel-air explosive

Questions about vacuum bomb

What does vacuum bomb mean?

vacuum bomb means "a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive".

What is another word for vacuum bomb?

Close synonyms include thermobaric bomb, fuel-air bomb, volume-detonation bomb, aerosol 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 vacuum bomb a common word?

vacuum 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.