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FLOATING MINE

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• FLOATING MINE (noun)
The noun FLOATING MINE has 1 sense:

1. an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it

Familiarity information: FLOATING MINE used as a noun is very rare.

• FLOATING MINE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floating mine; marine mine

Hypernyms ("floating mine" is a kind of...):

mine (explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floating mine"):

magnetic mine ((nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship))

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