Usually means: Explosion occurring above the ground.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. airburst: Merriam-Webster
  2. airburst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. airburst: Collins English Dictionary
  4. airburst: Vocabulary.com
  5. airburst: Wordnik
  6. airburst: Wiktionary
  7. airburst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. airburst: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. airburst: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. airburst: Dictionary.com
  11. Airburst (video game), Airburst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. airburst: Rhymezone
  13. airburst: FreeDictionary.org
  14. airburst: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. airburst: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. airburst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  17. airburst: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. airburst: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Airburst: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. airburst: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (airburst)

noun:  The explosion of a bomb (or similar weapon) or meteoroid in the air rather than on the ground.
verb:  To explode in this manner.

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