A fuse calculated to burn for or explode a bomb, shell, or explosive charge at a specified time.
定时引信（或导火线）
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The bombs were set free from the container at 5,000 feet by a time fuse and then exploded on contact with the ground.
In 1849, Austrian troops unleashed unmanned balloons carrying explosives triggered by time fuses against Venice, an experiment discontinued after the vagaries of wind direction made them an embarrassment.
Finally, the ends of the det cord were double-primed, once from each end, with a blasting cap and time fuse.
Its contract to develop an electronic time fuse for mortars that illuminate an area ran into snafus.
But these are time fuses with a difference: a laser beam acquires the target, and the launcher determines its range and calculates time to impact.
Once they've uncovered the ordnance, they use plastic explosive and then hook detonators and time fuses up to it, so they can light the fuse and get to a safe distance before it explodes.
But this one has a sort of delayed time fuse, as it were.
After the Brighton bomb, Magee was arrested while actively involved in a horrific plot to plant 16 bombs with long-term time fuses in hotels and on beaches in the south of England.