Definitions for time bomb
time bomb

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. time bomb, ticking bombnoun

   a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed

   "India is a demographic time bomb"; "the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off"

2. time bomb, infernal machinenoun

   a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time

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1. time bombnoun

   A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.

2. time bombnoun

   A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.

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1. time bomb

   A time bomb is a type of explosive device which is designed to detonate or explode after a predetermined amount of time, set by a timing mechanism. This term can also metaphorically refer to a situation, problem, or issue that is currently not harmful but can lead to serious consequences in the future.

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1. Time bomb

   A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. The use of time bombs has been for various purposes including insurance fraud, terrorism, assassination and warfare.

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1. time bomb

   A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically. There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically.Interestingly, the only such incident for which we have been pointed to documentary evidence took place in the Soviet Union in 1986! A disgruntled programmer at the Volga Automobile Plant (where the Fiat clones called Ladas were manufactured) planted a time bomb which, a week after he'd left on vacation, stopped the entire main assembly line for a day. The case attracted lots of attention in the Soviet Union because it was the first cracking case to make it to court there. The perpetrator got a suspended sentence of 3 years in jail and was barred from future work as a programmer.

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1. Time bombnoun

   A potential occurrence or disclosure that is of signicant adverse consequence.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on April 27, 2022  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of time bomb in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of time bomb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of time bomb in a Sentence

1. Howie Mandel:

   [ At the time ] I'm running seven miles a day, I'm eating healthy, I'm doing, you know, it's this a ticking time bomb, the silent kind, and that's when I got informed what high cholesterol meant, i didn't know there was a direct correlation between high cholesterol and heart disease, stroke. I did not even think about that. I didn't think I was even close to being a candidate for anything. I didn't think I even knew anybody like that. It turns out it was me and then I got scared and now I'm on my second statin, which is perfect and it's got my numbers under control and I feel healthy. I just want to get the word out there that this is really pervasive.

2. Speaker McCarthy:

   Without exaggeration American debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious responsible action. Yet, how has President Biden reacted to this issue? He has done nothing. So in my view, and I think the rest of America, it’s irresponsible.

3. Luo Shuhui:

   I just want an answer from the government, are the officials corrupt, or what? Why did they build a hazardous chemical warehouse near our home without telling us? Who would want to live next to a ticking time bomb? No one!

4. Sharon Allen:

   These are mentally unstable people and there's not enough nurses, we do have a ticking time bomb.

5. Ed Markey:

   Every single one of these Takata air bags could be a ticking time bomb.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=time bomb
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Time_Bomb
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=time bomb
5. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#TimeBomb