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ˈwɔrˌhɛdwar·head

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. warhead, payload, loadnoun

    the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

Wiktionary

  1. warheadnoun

    The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.

Wikipedia

  1. Warhead

    A warhead is the forward section of a device that contains the explosive agent or toxic (biological, chemical, or nuclear) material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, torpedo, or bomb.

ChatGPT

  1. warhead

    A warhead is the explosive or destructive part of a missile, torpedo, mine, or other munition that is designed to detonate on impact or when a specific condition is met. It often contains explosives, chemical, biological or nuclear materials that cause significant destruction and harm.

Wikidata

  1. Warhead

    The term warhead refers to the explosive and/or toxic material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of warhead in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of warhead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of warhead in a Sentence

  1. Damien Spleeters:

    It’s as though they looked at the finished warhead and said, ‘How can we make this even more destructive?’.

  2. Yasukazu Hamada:

    The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time could have a range of over 15,000 km when calculated based on the flight distance of this ICBM, it depends on the weight of the warhead, but in that case, the US mainland would be included in the range.

  3. Defense Secretary Mark Esper:

    Clearly they're trying to build long range ballistic missiles with the ability to carry a nuclear warhead.

  4. Ankit Panda:

    Adding more nuclear warheads to a single missile can better assure them of an ability to penetrate American missile defense and, if they're worried that their warheads might have reliability issues, more warheads increases the odds that one warhead will successfully detonate.

  5. 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.

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