warhead
pronunciation
How to pronounce warhead in British English:
UK [ˈwɔ:hed]
How to pronounce warhead in American English:
US [ˈwɔrhed]
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- Noun:
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
Word Origin
- warhead (n.)
- also war-head, 1898, "explosive part of a torpedo," from war (n.) + head (n.). Later transferred to any missile (1944).
Example
- 1. Its head contains a thermo-nuclear warhead .
- 2. An rpg warhead may eject a copper spike weighing several hundred grams .
- 3. It would probably take years more to develop a warhead and test it .
- 4. Sandwiched between hard plates , they discharge a rapidly expanding gas to absorb energy from a warhead .
- 5. But the same missile , if carrying a warhead , is capable in theory of reaching hawaii or alaska .