Bombardment vs. Shelling

Bombardmentnoun

the act of bombing, especially towns or cities

Shellingnoun

An artillery bombardment.

Bombardmentnoun

heavy artillery fire

Shellingnoun

The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.

Bombardmentnoun

(physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance

Shellingnoun

(uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed.

Bombardmentnoun

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

Shellingnoun

(topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)

Bombardmentnoun

the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)

Shellingnoun

Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

Bombardmentnoun

the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;

‘they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops’; ‘the shelling went on for hours without pausing’;

Shellingnoun

Groats; hulled oats.

Bombardmentnoun

an attack by dropping bombs

Shellingnoun

the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;

‘they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops’; ‘the shelling went on for hours without pausing’;

Bombardment

A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or towns and buildings. Prior to World War I, the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenseless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings, etc.