Meanings
plural cluster bombs
- An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
Bellingcat[…] has reviewed some of the pictures collected by the Guardian, confirmed the presence of tail fins of RBK-500 cluster bombs with PTAB-1M submunitions and cluster rocket, launched by BM-30 Smerch.
2022 April 21, Lorenzo Tondo, “Russia using cluster bombs to kill Ukrainian civilians, analysis suggests”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: cluster munition
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
Translations
Arabic قنبلة عنقودية
- قنبلة عنقوديةexplosive munition
Chinese Mandarin 集束炸彈 /集束炸弹
- 集束炸彈 /集束炸弹 (jíshù zhàdàn)explosive munition
Danish klyngebombe
- klyngebombeexplosive munition
Dutch clusterbom
- clusterbomexplosive munition
Finnish rypälepommi
- rypälepommiexplosive munition
French bombe à sous-munitions, arme à sous-munitions
- bombe à sous-munitionsexplosive munition
- arme à sous-munitionsexplosive munition
German Streubombe
- Streubombeexplosive munition
Hungarian kazettás bomba
- kazettás bombaexplosive munition
Icelandic klasasprenga
- klasasprengaexplosive munition
Irish cnuasbhuama
- cnuasbhuamaexplosive munition
Italian bomba a grappolo
- bomba a grappoloexplosive munition
Japanese クラスター爆弾
- クラスター爆弾 (kurasutā bakudan)explosive munition
Korean 집속탄, 송이폭탄
- 집속탄 (jipsoktan)explosive munition
- 송이폭탄 (song'ipoktan)explosive munition
Norwegian Bokmål klasebombe
- klasebombeexplosive munition
Russian кассе́тная бо́мба
- кассе́тная бо́мба (kassétnaja bómba)explosive munition
Spanish bomba de racimo
- bomba de racimoexplosive munition
Swedish klusterbomb
- klusterbombexplosive munition
Turkish misket bombası
- misket bombasıexplosive munition
Ukrainian касе́тна бо́мба
- касе́тна бо́мба (kasétna bómba)explosive munition
Vietnamese bom chùm
- bom chùmexplosive munition
Cite this entry
cluster bomb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cluster%20bomb
“cluster bomb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cluster%20bomb. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cluster bomb,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cluster%20bomb.
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