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  • noun Plural form of bombe.

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Examples

  • Her job was to set up large rudimentary computers called bombes to decode the German messages.

    Messenger News 2010

  • Her job was to set up large rudimentary computers called bombes to decode the German messages.

    Messenger News 2010

  • The computers were called "bombes", and were basically devices to spin Enigma rotors as fast as possible, trying out different keys while working on "cribs".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop.

    Box 2009

  • Bletchley Park rebuilds the bombes -- code crackers that won the ...

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Français · Les Philippines sous la peur des bombes

    Global Voices in English » Philippines: Bomb scare grips the country 2009

  • Bletchley Park rebuilds the bombes -- code crackers that won the war

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The bombes are turned out so that the cake is on the bottom and you end up with a beautiful piece that looks like it could have come from a four star restaurant - and tastes like it, too.

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites 2009

  • The only special thing you need to make it is a dome-shaped candy mold to give the bombes their shape.

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites 2009

  • The boy and I pick up one of their small baked Alaskas or ice cream bombes once every few weeks and split it for dessert, and ohmygod.

    Today’s Consolidated Berkeley Trip « Skid Roche 2008

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