proximity fuse

noun

an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target

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How to use proximity fuse in a sentence

Its proximity fuse detonated in the exhaust of a Connie boat, blowing the tube out of position.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet | Harold Leland Goodwin
"Chances are the intercept is working on a proximity fuse," Crag reasoned.
First on the Moon | Jeff Sutton
But he saw the burst of flame, bright as the sun itself, which was the explosion of a proximity fuse bomb.
Space Tug | Murray Leinster
Together, they should make up a screen no proximity fuse bomb could pierce without exploding.
Space Tug | Murray Leinster
Stick a proximity fuse on it, and a time fuse, too, in case we missed.
Slingshot | Irving W. Lande

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