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    ANTI-PERSONNEL BOMB

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 vehiclesplay

    Synonyms:

    anti-personnel bomb; antipersonnel bomb; daisy cutter; fragmentation bomb

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("anti-personnel bomb" is a kind of...):

    bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anti-personnel bomb"):

    Big Blue; BLU-82 (a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan)

    Holonyms ("anti-personnel bomb" is a part of...):

    cluster bomb (bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area)

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