Definition of "explosive device" []

• Device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""So … let me see now … what it amounts to is that you both believe that Charles Neville Steyning-Ratcliffe blew himself up while tampering with — or perhaps setting — an explosive device … which according to you was probably intended as a trap for — who was it""
• "I have taped a virus ampoule to a simple explosive device which will be detonated at 3.45 this afternoon in Lower Hampton, Norfolk."