A-bomb

English

Etymology

Shortened form of atomic bomb.

Pronunciation

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Noun

A-bomb (plural A-bombs)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of atomic bomb; a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power; in particular, those that rely on the uncontrolled explosive chain reaction of nuclear fission.

   Synonyms: atom bomb, atomic bomb, fission bomb

   Hypernyms: nuclear bomb, nuke (slang)

Derived terms

• A-bomber

Related terms

• C-bomb
• H-bomb
• N-bomb
• U-bomb

Translations

atomic bomb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原子彈 / 原子弹 (zh) (yuánzǐdàn)

• Danish: atombombe (da) c
• Dutch: atoombom (nl) f
• Esperanto: a-bombo
• Estonian: aatomipomm (et)
• Finnish: atomipommi (fi)
• French: bombe atomique (fr) f
• German: A-Bombe (de) f, Atombombe (de) f
• Greek: ατομική βόμβα (el) f (atomikí vómva)
• Hebrew: פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית f (petzatza atomít)
• Icelandic: atómsprengja f
• Italian: bomba A f
• Japanese: 原子爆弾 (ja) (げんしばくだん, genshi bakudan), 原爆 (ja) (げんばく,genbaku)
• Korean: 원폭 (ko) (wonpok)
• Latvian: atombumba f
• Lithuanian: atominė bomba f
• Macedonian: А-бо́мба f (A-bómba), а́томска бо́мба f (átomska bómba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: a-bombe f, atombombe (no) f

• Plautdietsch: Atommbomm f
• Polish: bomba atomowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: bomba atômica f (Brazil), bomba atómica f (Portugal)
• Russian: а́томная бо́мба (ru) f (átomnaja bómba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀то̄мска̄ бо̑мба f

  Latin: àtōmskā bȏmba f

• Spanish: bomba atómica f
• Swedish: atombomb (sv) c
• Vietnamese: bom nguyên tử (vi)
• Welsh: bom atomig

Verb

A-bomb (third-person singular simple present A-bombs, present participle A-bombing, simple past and past participle A-bombed)

1. (slang) To bomb with an atom bomb.

See also

• chain reaction
• dirty bomb
• fall-out, fallout
• nuclear bomb
• thermonuclear bomb
• WMD

Anagrams

• Bomba, bomba