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shrapnel

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shrapnel.

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The target is moving much faster than your explosives explode, so timing the explosion to hit the target with your shrapnel field is too hard.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shrapnel gathered in one view.

noun

A surname

noun

(military) Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.

noun

(by extension, figurative) Debris.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shrapnel.

noun

A surname

noun

(military) Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.

noun

(by extension, figurative) Debris.

noun

(slang, figurative) Loose change.

Example sentences

1

The target is moving much faster than your explosives explode, so timing the explosion to hit the target with your shrapnel field is too hard.

2

The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.

3

How many people died in the Battle of Britain from shells, shrapnel and planes falling on them?

4

Attaching to something heavy (but NOT shrapnel-genrating) and sinking in ~5-10 feet of water is fun.

5

As it is it turns from a single vehicle that's obviously in trouble to a cloud of shrapnel very, very quickly.

6

Even after losses due to air resistance, AA shrapnel can come with with lethal velocities.

7

Optical disks can be weakened so as to become shrapnel inside a disk drive.

8

As someone still carrying a shrapnel in his leg, I hope none of you come to experience it.

9

MH17 was downed by the shrapnel from the missile, not the shockwave.

10

You can use a proximity fuze so that once you get somewhat close to the target, the missile explodes and destroys the aircraft with shrapnel.

11

It's more like a shotgun that throws a bunch of shrapnel.

12

I was mainly speaking to the anti-aircraft weapon's addition shrapnel, rather than the drone itself.

Quote examples

1

Paraphrasing from that article: "So, realising I had created a bomb, I surrounded the bomb in shrapnel and took it to a crowded part of the city".

Proper noun examples

1

Shrapnel [2] is another game somewhat along these lines, but it takes things in a different direction.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shrapnel in a sentence?

The target is moving much faster than your explosives explode, so timing the explosion to hit the target with your shrapnel field is too hard.

What does shrapnel mean?

A surname

What part of speech is shrapnel?

shrapnel is commonly used as noun.