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ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic countermeasures mean? 

ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (noun)
  The noun ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES has 1 sense:

1. electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrumplay

  Familiarity information: ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ECM; electronic countermeasures

Hypernyms ("electronic countermeasures" is a kind of...):

electronic warfare; EW (military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic countermeasures"):

electronic deception (the deliberate use of electromagnetic energy in a manner intended to convey misleading information)

electronic jamming; jam; jamming (deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems)


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