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Magnetic Mine

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Noun

1. magnetic mine

(nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)

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Magnetic Mine

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noun
a mine designed to activate when a magnetic field such as that generated by the metal of a ship's hull is detected

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Magnetic Mine

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a naval mine designed to explode when the metal hull of a ship passing near it deflects a magnetic needle, closing an electric circuit and thus detonating the charge

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Magnetic Mine

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n.
A marine mine detonated by a mechanism that responds to a mass of magnetic material, such as the steel hull of a ship.

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