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☆ shaped charge

a charge arranged, in an armor-piercing projectile, in such a way as to concentrate its explosive force in a desired direction

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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