Meaning

1 senses
  1. An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.

    Streubombe

    кассе́тная бо́мбаkassétnaja bómba

    касе́тна бо́мбаkasétna bómba

    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

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Israeli cluster bombs are still in southern Lebanon.

  2. The US dropped millions of cluster bombs in Southeast Asia.

  3. American cluster bombs still kill and maim people in Southeast Asia.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
explosive munition:
Русский
By meaning 1
explosive munition:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
explosive munition:

Forms

plural: cluster bombs
Singularcluster bomb
Pluralcluster bombs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

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