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proximity fuze

noun

  1. a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of proximity fuze1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

His third was a graze; so close that its proximity fuze functioned, detonating the cyclonite-packed war-head.

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