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detcord

detcord is the abbreviation of detonating cord.

Meaning of detonating cord

Noun

detonating cord (plural detonating cords)

  1. An explosive cord, typically used as a fuse/primer to detonate explosive charges, or as a cutting agent to cut patterns explosively. The explosive cord is a small flexible plastic tube filled with explosive in a flexible binder, typically pentaerythritol tetranitrate (“PETN”) (pentrite explosives).
    Synonyms:
    cordeau, detcord, det cord, det. cord, detacord, sun cord, primer cord, primacord

Forms of detcord

pluraldetcords
alternative formdet cord
alternative formdet. cord
alternative formdetacord

Origin of detcord

Blend of detonating + cord.

Questions about detcord

What is detcord the abbreviation of?
Detcord is the abbreviation of detonating cord.

Words near detcord in the dictionary

  1. detax
  2. detaxation
  3. detaxed
  4. detaxes
  5. detaxing
  6. detcord
  7. detcords
  8. Dete
  9. detechnicalize
  10. detechnicalized
  11. detechnicalizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detcord (page history and authors); detonating cord (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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