GUIDED MISSILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guided missile mean? 

• GUIDED MISSILE (noun)
  The noun GUIDED MISSILE has 1 sense:

1. a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices

  Familiarity information: GUIDED MISSILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUIDED MISSILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("guided missile" is a kind of...):

missile (a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control)

Meronyms (parts of "guided missile"):

guidance device; guidance system (a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile))

homing device (the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective)

load; payload; warhead (the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guided missile"):

ABM; antiballistic missile (a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles)

buzz bomb; doodlebug; flying bomb; robot bomb; V-1 (a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb)

Exocet (a guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships)

space probe (a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation)

SAM; surface-to-air missile (a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target)