Meanings of delayed-action in English

The thought of this unconscious and delayed-action crusading filled me with keen delight.

It had the impact of a delayed-action atomic bomb.

When István pressed the scarlet bulb, the brass trumpet let out its melancholy delayed-action moo.

In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.

He could see a few fires still burning, and every so often a delayed-action bomb would go off.

The projectile carries a bursting charge of a high explosive, and this charge is detonated by a delayed-action fuse.

Long after the planes had gone, delayed-action bombs were exploding in Tempelhof, where the raid had taken twenty-two thousand lives.

The carnage wrought by the German six- and eleven-inch explosive shells with delayed-action fuses was frightful beyond anything I have ever known.

Like the 420s they fired an armor-piercing shell with a delayed-action fuse allowing the explosion to take place after penetration of the target.

The bombs, in the main, however, consist of jacketed shells containing high explosives, some of which are constructed on what is called the delayed-action principle.

'It must have had a delayed-action fuse on it' Her voice sounded funny, as if she had something stuck in her throat.