English Dictionary

time bomb

noun

A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time. / (computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time.

The time bomb was ticking, creating a sense of urgency in the room.

意味（1）

A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.

意味（2）

(computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time.

Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.