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explosive lens

explosive lens noun: a highly specialized type of shaped charge, used mainly in nuclear weapons, composed of several explosive charges arranged so as to control the shape of the detonation wave passing through them.

Noun

explosive lens (plural explosive lenses)

  1. A highly specialized type of shaped charge, used mainly in nuclear weapons, composed of several explosive charges arranged so as to control the shape of the detonation wave passing through them.

Forms of explosive lens

pluralexplosive lenses

Questions about explosive lens

What does explosive lens mean?
Explosive lens means a highly specialized type of shaped charge, used mainly in nuclear weapons, composed of several explosive charges arranged so as to control the shape of the detonation wave passing through them.
What part of speech is explosive lens?
Explosive lens is a noun.
What is the plural of explosive lens?
The plural of explosive lens is explosive lenses.

Words near explosive lens in the dictionary

  1. explosive cyclogenesis
  2. explosive decompression
  3. explosive decompressions
  4. explosive gelatin
  5. explosive gelatine
  6. explosive lens
  7. explosive lenses
  8. explosive sadism
  9. explosively
  10. explosively formed penetrator
  11. explosively formed penetrators

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