atomic bomb
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2.3
- noun
- /əˈtɑːmɪk bɑːm/
- Specialized
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bomba atómica
- The U.S. made two atomic bombs to drop on Japan, Fat Man and Little Boy.
- drop the atomic bomb
- atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- development of the atomic bomb
Because if you've got atomic bombs, you need a way to deliver them.
- Because if you've got atomic bombs, you need a way to deliver them.
- I was told that it could withstand an atomic bomb.
- This is the true story of how Hiroshima survived the atomic bomb.
- And so it was Klaus Fuchs who gave the allegedly gave the secret of the atomic bomb through the Rosenbergs to Joseph Stalin.
- So Cillard, among other accomplishments, was the first human being to think of the principle of the atomic bomb chain reaction.
- There is no atomic bomb you can drop on it to destroy it, to destroy that enemy.
- Looks kind of like an like an atomic bomb explosion shape.
- Everything in this room can cause an atomic bomb, right?
- They said they try setting off an atomic bomb, that didn't work.
Examples
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The world witnessed a new level of destruction in the first atomic bomb.
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Did you know that an atomic bomb has more power than 50 million tons of TNT?
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The design of the first atomic bomb was a very deep secret
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We dropped two atomic bombs.
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Remember that the development of the atomic bomb was a closely held secret.
Academic text (1997) -
The Soviet Union made no announcement after its first atomic bomb test in 1949, but the US did.
Academic text (1996) -
The first thing he remembered seeing on television was an atomic bomb exploding.
Fiction book (1991) -
By contrast, Doolittle wrote that using the two atomic bombs on Japan was the right thing to do.
Academic text (2005) -
This asteroid's massive impact unleashed the power of more than 100 atomic bombs.
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The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, causing massive destruction.
Synonyms
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3.5
A very powerful bomb that uses energy from splitting or joining atoms
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7.6
A very powerful bomb that uses nuclear energy
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4.8
A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices
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5.0
A part of a missile or bomb that contains a nuclear bomb
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3.0
A very powerful weapon that splits atoms to release huge energy
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3.0
A very powerful weapon that splits atoms to cause a huge explosion
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3.5
A very powerful explosive that uses energy from splitting or joining atoms to destroy things
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6.7
A bomb that releases a huge amount of energy by splitting heavy atoms like uranium or plutonium
How Destructive
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2.3
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4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'atomic' (relating to atoms or nuclear energy) combined with 'bomb' (an explosive device) yields a bomb that uses atomic/nuclear reactions. This noun–noun compound follows regular, cross-linguistically common formation patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Atomic bomb gets its name from the atom, the tiny part of matter. When scientists learned to split atoms, a bomb could release a huge amount of energy, so the name came to mean a weapon with 'very great power to destroy'.