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A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: radiological dispersal device, RDD, radiological bomb
Antonyms: none provided
A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cobalt bomb, salted bomb
Antonyms: clean bomb
an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
قُنْبُلَة قَذِرَة
(qunbula qaḏira)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Belarusian:
бру́дная бо́мба
(brúdnaja bómba)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Bulgarian:
мръ́сна бо́мба
(mrǎ́sna bómba)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Chinese Mandarin:
髒彈 /脏弹
(zāngdàn)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Chinese Mandarin:
骯髒炸彈 /肮脏炸弹
(āngzāng zhàdàn)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Czech:
špinavá bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Danish:
beskidt bombe
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Dutch:
vuile bom
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Estonian:
räpane pomm
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Finnish:
likainen pommi
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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French:
bombe sale
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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German:
schmutzige Bombe
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Greek:
βρώμικη βόμβα
(vrómiki vómva)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Hebrew:
פְּצָצָה מְלֻכְלֶכֶת
(ptsatsá melukhlékhet)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Hungarian:
piszkos bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Irish:
buama salach
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Italian:
bomba sporca
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Japanese:
汚い爆弾
(kitanai bakudan)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Japanese:
ダーティー・ボム
(dātī-bomu)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Korean:
더러운 폭탄
(deoreoun poktan)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Korean:
더티밤
(deotibam)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Latvian:
netīrā bumba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Lithuanian:
nešvari bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Macedonian:
валкана бомба
(valkana bomba)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Norwegian Bokmål:
skitten bombe
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Persian:
بمب کثیف
(bomb-e kasif)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Polish:
brudna bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Portuguese:
bomba suja
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Romanian:
bomba murdară
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Russian:
гря́зная бо́мба
(grjáznaja bómba)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Serbo-Croatian:
прљава бомба
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Serbo-Croatian:
prljava bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Slovak:
špinavá bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Slovene:
umazana bomba
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Spanish:
bomba sucia
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Swedish:
radioaktiv bomb
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Swedish:
smutsig bomb
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Ukrainian:
брудна́ бо́мба
(brudná bómba)
— device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material
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Belarusian:
бру́дная бо́мба
(brúdnaja bómba)
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Danish:
beskidt bombe
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Finnish:
likainen pommi
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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German:
schmutzige Bombe
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Polish:
brudna bomba
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Russian:
гря́зная бо́мба
(grjáznaja bómba)
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Swedish:
smutsig bomb
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
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Ukrainian:
брудна́ бо́мба
(brudná bómba)
— nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design
