time bomb

See also timebomb, and time-bomb

English

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Alternative forms

• timebomb
• time-bomb

Noun

time bomb (plural time bombs)

1. A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
2. (by extension) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.

Translations

bomb with a timeout mechanism

Afrikaans: tydbom (af) Chinese: Mandarin: 定時炸彈 (zh), 定时炸弹 (zh) (dìngshízhàdàn), 計時炸彈 (zh), 计时炸弹 (zh) (jìshízhàdàn) Czech: časovaná bomba (cs) f. Dutch: tijdbom (nl) f. and m. Finnish: aikapommi (fi) French: bombe à retardement (fr) f. Galician: bomba de reloxería (gl) f. German: Zeitbombe (de) f. Greek: ωρολογιακή βόμβα (el) (orologiakí vómva) f.

Indonesian: bom waktu (id) Japanese: 時限爆弾 (ja) (jigen-bákudan) Malay: bom jangka (ms) Persian: بمب ساعتی (fa) (bomb-e sâ'ati) Russian: бо́мба заме́дленного де́йствия (ru) (bómba zamédlennovo déjstvija) f., бо́мба с часовы́м механи́змом (ru) (bómba s časovým mexanízmom) f. Spanish: bomba de relojería (es) f. Swedish: tidsinställd bomb (sv) c.