atomic bombn.

Brit.

/əˌtɒmɪk ˈbɒm/, U.S.

/əˌtɑmɪk ˈbɑm/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: atomic adj., bomb n.

Etymology: < atomic adj. + bomb n. Compare later A-bomb n. and atom bomb n.

= atom bomb n. Also in extended use. Cf. hydrogen bomb n. at hydrogen n. Compounds 1a(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > atomic or fission

atomic bomb1914

atom bomb1921

superbomb1940

uranium bomb1940

fission bomb1941

A-bomb1945

nuclear bomb1945

plutonium bomb1946

device1954

super1982

1914 H. G. Wells in Eng. Rev. 16 326 Never before..had there been a continuing explosive..; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them.

1917 Yale Rev. Jan. 295 When you can drop just one atomic bomb and wipe out Paris or Berlin, war will have become monstrous and impossible.

1925 Punch 11 Feb. 152/2 When, like the bursting of atomic bombs, Cats call to cats and Toms miaul to Toms.

1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces xii. 325 We must now assume that a single atomic bomb is capable of destroying all matter within a circumference of seventy to eighty miles.

1945 Times 7 Aug. 4/1 President Truman announced..yesterday that the first atomic bomb had been dropped 16 hours before by an American aircraft on Hiroshima.

1963 N. Coward Diary 12 Jan. (2000) 525 He is deeply scared of the atomic bomb. I mean genuinely, gibberingly scared!

1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash xxvi. 187 Bad news. A metavirus... It's the atomic bomb of informational warfare.

2005 New Republic 8 Aug. 21/2 Two North Korean..facilities were being used to produce..an atomic bomb in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	atomic bomb
释义	atomic bombn. Brit. /əˌtɒmɪk ˈbɒm/, U.S. /əˌtɑmɪk ˈbɑm/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: atomic adj., bomb n. Etymology: < atomic adj. + bomb n. Compare later A-bomb n. and atom bomb n. = atom bomb n. Also in extended use. Cf. hydrogen bomb n. at hydrogen n. Compounds 1a(b). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > atomic or fission atomic bomb1914 atom bomb1921 superbomb1940 uranium bomb1940 fission bomb1941 A-bomb1945 nuclear bomb1945 plutonium bomb1946 device1954 super1982 1914 H. G. Wells in Eng. Rev. 16 326 Never before..had there been a continuing explosive..; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them. 1917 Yale Rev. Jan. 295 When you can drop just one atomic bomb and wipe out Paris or Berlin, war will have become monstrous and impossible. 1925 Punch 11 Feb. 152/2 When, like the bursting of atomic bombs, Cats call to cats and Toms miaul to Toms. 1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces xii. 325 We must now assume that a single atomic bomb is capable of destroying all matter within a circumference of seventy to eighty miles. 1945 Times 7 Aug. 4/1 President Truman announced..yesterday that the first atomic bomb had been dropped 16 hours before by an American aircraft on Hiroshima. 1963 N. Coward Diary 12 Jan. (2000) 525 He is deeply scared of the atomic bomb. I mean genuinely, gibberingly scared! 1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash xxvi. 187 Bad news. A metavirus... It's the atomic bomb of informational warfare. 2005 New Republic 8 Aug. 21/2 Two North Korean..facilities were being used to produce..an atomic bomb in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1914
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