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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLUSTER BOMB

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Cluster bomb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLUSTER BOMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cluster munition

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy runways or electric power transmission lines, disperse chemical or biological weapons, or to scatter land mines. Some submunition-based weapons can disperse non-munitions, such as leaflets. Because cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area, they pose risks to civilians both during attacks and afterwards. During attacks, the weapons are prone to indiscriminate effects, especially in populated areas. Unexploded bomblets can kill or maim civilians and/or unintended targets long after a conflict has ended, and are costly to locate and remove. Cluster munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland in May 2008.

Definition of cluster bomb in the English dictionary

The definition of cluster bomb in the dictionary is a bomb that throws out a number of smaller bombs or antipersonnel projectiles when it explodes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLUSTER BOMB

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clusia
cluster
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WORDS THAT END LIKE CLUSTER BOMB

atom bomb
atomic bomb
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Synonyms and antonyms of cluster bomb in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cluster bomb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLUSTER BOMB

Find out the translation of cluster bomb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cluster bomb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cluster bomb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

集束炸弹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bomba de racimo
570 millions of speakers

English

cluster bomb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्लस्टर बम
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قنبلة عنقودية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кассетная бомба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bomba de fragmentação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লাস্টার বোমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bombe à fragmentation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bom cluster
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Streubomben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クラスター爆弾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

클러스터 폭탄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bom cluster
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quả bom chùm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிளஸ்டர் குண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लस्टर बॉम्ब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küme bombası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bombe a grappolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cluster bomb
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

касетна бомба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bombă de cluster
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βομβών διασποράς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cluster bom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klusterbomb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klasebombe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cluster bomb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLUSTER BOMB»

The term «cluster bomb» is regularly used and occupies the 79.347 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLUSTER BOMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cluster bomb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLUSTER BOMB»

Discover the use of cluster bomb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cluster bomb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cluster Bombs: Cluster Bomb, Unexploded Ordnance, Convention ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
LLC Books, 2010
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Human Rights Watch United States/ Afghnistan Fatally Flawed: ...
CONCERNS ABOUT CLUSTER BOMBS The qualities that make a cluster bomb militarily desirable also make it dangerous to unintended targets. The weapon attracts two major humanitarian criticisms: 1) cluster bombs are prone to causing  ...
Human Rights Watch
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Cluster Munition Monitor 2012
Human Rights Watch press release, “Sudan: Cluster Bomb Found in Conflict Zone,” 25 May 2012. http:// www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/24/sudan-cluster-bomb- found-conflict-zone. Aris Roussinos, “In a Sudanese field, cluster bomb evidence  ...
Icbl-cmc
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Cluster Munition Monitor 2011
The BME-330AT cluster bomb contains 516 bomblets, a mixture of 512 armor- piercing SAC-1 AP antipersonnel bomblets and four MAC-2 antitank mines.989 The BME-330C (multipurpose) cluster bomb holds 180 bomblets of three different  ...
The Monitor, Mines Action Canada
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Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice
Question: “Has the Government ever used a cluster bomb as a weapon ofwar or for testing purposes; if so: (a) how many have been used; (b) where have they been used; and (c) what types have been used?” Answer: “The Australian Defence ...
The Monitor, Mines Action Canada, 2009
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Articles on Submunitions, Including: Cluster Bomb, Butterfly ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo
Both U.S. and British forces have acknowledged the use of cluster bombs in the bombing campaign/ 10 The White House issued a directive to the Pentagon in May 1999 to restrict cluster bomb use (at least by U.S. forces) after fourteen ...
‎2001
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The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in ...
In the 1930s, munitions experts in the Soviet Union developed early versions of cluster bomb technology. However, it was the Germans who first used cluster bombs operationally in World War II during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Called ...
Spencer C. Tucker, 2010
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The Nimrods
In 1966 and early 1967, a typical underwing load for a combat mission included a pair of SUU-025 flare dispensers, two LAU-3A rocket pods, and four CBU- 14 cluster bomb unit containers. As combat operations over the Ho Chi Minh Trail ...
Roger D. Graham, 2007
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To Hanoi and Back: The United States Air Force and North ...
Though a cluster bomb had little effect on guns, it could force gun crews to take cover or suffer severe wounds. Early models of cluster bombs could not be used in the strongly defended Red River Delta, because they required delivery at about ...
Wayne Thompson, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLUSTER BOMB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cluster bomb is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watch a Dispatch from the Scene of Saudi Arabia's Alleged War …
At a hospital in Saada City supported by Doctors Without Borders (also known by its French initials, MSF), a stream of cluster bomb victims ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
2
Arguments against gay marriage will get more nuts before it's over
They can't readily admit they dislike gay people as society has moved too far down the road of equality, so we get this bizarre cluster bomb of ... «SBS, Jul 15»
3
Possible graves of two Vietnam War-era MIA pilots identified
They said he was killed by either a rocket or a cluster bomb from a U.S. aircraft about two hours later, and was buried near a bomb crater. «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
4
The Lone Strafer
In World War II, the Germans developed something called the sprengbombe dickwandig aka the 'cluster bomb', which with its number of ... «Outlook, Jun 15»
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Israeli cluster bomb kills boy, wounds 3 in south Lebanon
SIDON, Lebanon: A nine-year-old Syrian boy was killed and three of his relatives wounded when a nearly decade-old Israeli cluster bomb ... «The Daily Star, Jun 15»
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Israeli cluster bomb kills Syrian boy in Lebanon
BEIRUT — A nearly decade-old Israeli cluster bomb killed a nine-year-old Syrian boy and wounded three of his relatives in south Lebanon, ... «Arab American News, Jun 15»
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Civilians killed in fresh Saudi airstrikes on Yemen
A Yemeni civilian was reportedly killed in an explosion by a Saudi cluster bomb in Razih district of the northwestern Sa'ada Province. «Press TV, Jun 15»
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Cluster Bombs Hit Homes in May
The cluster bomb that landed on Shadia's home was one of four that the Sudanese Air Force dropped at around 7:30 in the morning on May 27. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
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OPINION: Meanwhile, in Sudan, this is what al-Bashir's been up to
The cluster bomb that landed on Shadia's home was one of four that the Sudanese Air Force dropped at around 7:30 in the morning on 27 May. «Eyewitness News, Jun 15»
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Meanwhile, in Sudan, this is what al-Bashir's been up to
The cluster bomb that landed on Shadia's home was one of four that the Sudanese Air Force dropped at around 7:30 in the morning on 27 May. «Daily Maverick, Jun 15»

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