Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vacuum_bomb

1 sense of vacuum bomb

Sense 1
thermobaric bomb, fuel-air bomb, vacuum bomb, volume-detonation bomb, aerosol bomb -- (a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive; "a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb")
       => bomb -- (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)
       => fuel-air explosive, FAE -- (a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below)