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Definition of Detonating device
1. Noun. A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive.
Specialized synonyms: Blasting Cap, Percussion Cap
Generic synonyms: Explosive Device
Derivative terms: Detonate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detonating Device
Literary usage of Detonating device
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual on the Rule of the Road at Sea and Precautionary Aids to Mariners by Daniel Harvey Hayne (1912)
"A steam vessel should carry a spare anchor bell, extra whistle or siren attachments,
detonating device and fog equipment, all efficient and kept in good ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"... CURRENT HISTORY the accidents that were always to be feared in the handling
of the old grenades before the invention of the automatic detonating device. ..."
3. A Military and Naval Dictionary by John Philip Wisser, henry Colford Gauss (1905)
"It constitutes the forward part of the device, and a detonating device is screwed
to the forward end or nose, which causes an explosion when forced into ..."
4. The Official History of the Three Hundred and Fourth Engineer Regiment by Army, 304th Engineer Regiment, United States (1920)
"... a detonating device. This mine was in some cases enclosed in a wooden trap,
buried with its top flush with the ground and camouflaged with grass; ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"To this end he had been experimenting for several months on a waterproof mine
and a detonating device that would operate by the swinging of a rudder, ..."
6. Across the Reef: The Amphibious Tracked Vehicle at War by Victor J. Croizat (2001)
"... the grapnel-mine- detonating device, previously mentioned, which, contrary to
orders, was not installed lest it cause the modified amtracs to sink. ..."
7. America Entangled: The Secret Plotting of German Spies in the United States by John Price Jones (1917)
"... which could be attached to the rudder posts of ships, and which would be so
regulated by a detonating device that explosions would occur far out at sea. ..."
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