Search Result for "magnetic mine":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

magnetic mine \magnetic mine\ n. (Mil.) A marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that detects the nearness of magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship). A magnetic counter mine may allow the passagw of several ships before detonating. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

magnetic mine n 1: (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)