Definitions for anti-personnel
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1. anti-personneladjective

   Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.

   An anti-personnel mine will kill a soldier but is ineffective against a tank.

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1. anti-personnel

   An anti-personnel weapon is a weapon primarily used to maim or kill infantry and other personnel not behind armor, as opposed to attacking structures or vehicles, or hunting game. The development of defensive fortification and combat vehicles gave rise to weapons designed specifically to attack them, and thus a need to distinguish between those systems and ones intended to attack people. For instance, an anti-personnel landmine will explode into small and sharp splinters that tear flesh but have little effect on metal surfaces, while anti-tank mines have considerably different design, using much more explosive power to effect damage to armored fighting vehicles, or use explosively formed penetrators to punch through armor plating. Many modern weapons systems can be employed in different roles. For example, a tank's main gun can fire armor-piercing ammunition in the anti-tank role, high-explosive ammunition in the anti-structure role and fragmentation shells in the anti-personnel role. There are also more exotic classes of weapons, such as neutron bombs, chemicals, and biological weapons, which are only designed to attack people. As there is a greater international criticism of them, they are therefore rarely used. These are not generally referred to as anti-personnel weapons but by their own names or group terms (e.g., NBC weapons) by which they are specifically banned. Such weapons often create much collateral damage and may affect large numbers of civilians, as well as causing long spanning consequences when they are not detonated in the case of buried explosives.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of anti-personnel in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of anti-personnel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of anti-personnel in a Sentence

1. Khalil Asir:

   This area is under Taliban control and since security forces launched attacks to clear it, the Taliban have planted anti-personnel mines, unfortunately, today, one of those mines exploded and killed nine primary school students.

2. Foreign Affairs:

   (They are) militia, non-descript, not in uniform, majority work in small groups, snipers, with heavy extensive use of anti-personnel and other mines. Many of these mines are Iranian-(made).

3. John Venable:

   The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

4. Mairi Cunningham:

   We’re seeing anti-vehicle mines, both metal and plastic. We’re seeing anti-personnel mines, we’re seeing anti-personnel binding and fragmentation mines on tripwires, grenades on tripwires and we’re also seeing cluster munitions.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anti-Personnel
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Personnel