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SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surface-to-air missile system mean? 

SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraftplay

  Familiarity information: SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("surface-to-air missile system" is a kind of...):

shipboard system (a system designed to work as a coherent entity on board a naval ship)

Meronyms (parts of "surface-to-air missile system"):

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


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