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Definition of Bombardment
1. Noun. The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written). "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"
Generic synonyms: Language, Linguistic Communication
Derivative terms: Barrage, Bombard
2. Noun. The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"
Generic synonyms: Fire, Firing
Derivative terms: Shell
3. Noun. The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays).
4. Noun. An attack by dropping bombs.
Generic synonyms: Attack, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught
Specialized synonyms: Bombing Run, Area Bombing, Carpet Bombing, Saturation Bombing
Derivative terms: Bombard, Bomb
Definition of Bombardment
1. n. An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Definition of Bombardment
1. Noun. the act of bombing, especially towns or cities ¹
2. Noun. heavy artillery fire ¹
3. Noun. (physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bombardment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombardment
Literary usage of Bombardment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of International Law by George Grafton Wilson (1910)
"(a) bombardment of undefended towns or buildings by land forces is prohibited.
... (e) In all cases of bombardment, whether of defended or undefended places ..."
2. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"After adverting in the preamble to the expediency of subjecting naval bombardment
to rules of general application which would safeguard the inhabitants and ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"In most cases the duration of the bombardment was about 10 min. and in different
... After the bombardment the activated material was dissolved in dilute ..."
4. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"Provisions of the Hague Convention regarding Naval bombardment. The question of
naval bombardments was considered at length by the Second Hague Conference, ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law (1921)
"The first might be entitled: " bombardment by naval forces in general" and might
comprise Articles 1, 2 and 3; it might fix the rules for bombardment by ..."
6. The Two Hague Conferences and Their Contributions to International Law by William Isaac Hull (1908)
"Naval bombardment bombardment by naval forces was regulated by a series of important
... bombardment for the enforcement of a money ransom was prohibited, ..."
7. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"bombardment of Island No. 10.—The Scenes, Incidents, and Results.—Fruits of the
Northern Victory.—Movements of the Federals on the Tennessee River. ..."
8. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"The bombardment ordered by Lord Raglan; its effect. Losses resulting from the
assaults on the Redan. wards duly withdrawn.4 XIII. ..."
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