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time-fuse

n. a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb)

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Very soon thereafter, they were provided with a new and specially Krupp-designed cannon, the first ever capable of being cranked almost to the vertical, and firing a Shrapnel shell that could be time-fused, in theory anyway, to explode at a predetermined altitude.