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Princeton's WordNet

  1. time bomb, ticking bombnoun

    a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed

    "India is a demographic time bomb"; "the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off"

  2. time bomb, infernal machinenoun

    a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time

Wiktionary

  1. time bombnoun

    A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.

  2. time bombnoun

    A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.

ChatGPT

  1. time bomb

    A time bomb is a type of explosive device which is designed to detonate or explode after a predetermined amount of time, set by a timing mechanism. This term can also metaphorically refer to a situation, problem, or issue that is currently not harmful but can lead to serious consequences in the future.

Wikidata

  1. Time bomb

    A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. The use of time bombs has been for various purposes including insurance fraud, terrorism, assassination and warfare.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. time bomb

    A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically. There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically.Interestingly, the only such incident for which we have been pointed to documentary evidence took place in the Soviet Union in 1986! A disgruntled programmer at the Volga Automobile Plant (where the Fiat clones called Ladas were manufactured) planted a time bomb which, a week after he'd left on vacation, stopped the entire main assembly line for a day. The case attracted lots of attention in the Soviet Union because it was the first cracking case to make it to court there. The perpetrator got a suspended sentence of 3 years in jail and was barred from future work as a programmer.

Editors Contribution

  1. Time bombnoun

    A potential occurrence or disclosure that is of signicant adverse consequence.


    Submitted by anonymous on April 27, 2022  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of time bomb in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of time bomb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of time bomb in a Sentence

  1. Kitso Mokaila:

    Tell me, why would you have an asset that has no value ? That is the fundamental question. If people are to look after our wildlife, there must be a value attached to it. Otherwise, we are sitting on a ticking time-bomb.

  2. Vlado Azinovic:

    We are seeing a completely new generation of children who were raised on the battlefield or near the battlefield, they are like a time bomb for any country they may end up in.

  3. Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala:

    Grassroots stimulus through consumption is not the answer, stimulus through personal debt is just a time bomb. The benefit will be short lived, and the payback painful.

  4. Luo Shuhui:

    I just want an answer from the government, are the officials corrupt, or what? Why did they build a hazardous chemical warehouse near our home without telling us? Who would want to live next to a ticking time bomb? No one!

  5. Lotta Sylwander:

    It's like a time bomb. It's ticking, and it could explode at any time.


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