English Explanatory Dictionary

thermobaric weapon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A weapon of a class of bombs, which causes a large explosion, with effects similar to a nuclear blast, by having an explosion, flash of heat, shockwave, producing a vacuum, and vacuum collapse pressure wave. Typically produced by aerosolizing a fuel throughout the air, and setting it alight, producing a detonation, that consumes all the oxygen in the region.

Word forms

thermobaric weapon thermobaric weapons

Etymology

From being a weapon which produces heat (“thermo-”) and pressure (“baric”).

Synonyms

aerosol bomb FAE fuel-air explosive poor-man's nuke vacuum bomb
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