missile : Idioms & Phrases


air-to-air missile

  • noun a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another
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air-to-ground missile

  • noun a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground
    air-to-ground missile.
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air-to-surface missile

  • noun a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground
    air-to-ground missile.
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antiballistic missile

  • noun a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
    ABM.
    • the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs
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ballistic missile

  • noun a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target
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ballistic missile defense organization

  • noun an agency in the Department of Defense that is responsible for making ballistic missile defense a reality
    BMDO.
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basic point defense missile system

  • noun a shipboard missile system
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cruise missile

  • noun an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb
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fleet ballistic missile submarine

  • noun a submarine carrying ballistic missiles
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guided missile

  • noun a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices
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guided missile cruiser

  • noun a cruiser that carries guided missiles
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guided missile destroyer

  • noun a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
    destroyer.
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guided missile frigate

  • noun a frigate that carries guided missiles
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heat-seeking missile

  • noun a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine)
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intercontinental ballistic missile

  • noun a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
    ICBM.
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missile defence system

  • noun naval weaponry providing a defense system
    missile defence system.
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missile defense system

  • noun naval weaponry providing a defense system
    missile defence system.
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  • noun naval weaponry consisting of a missile carried on a warship
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surface-to-air missile

  • noun a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
    SAM.
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surface-to-air missile system

  • noun the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft
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