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WEAPONS PLATFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weapons platform mean? 

WEAPONS PLATFORM (noun)
  The noun WEAPONS PLATFORM has 1 sense:

1. any military structure or vehicle bearing weaponsplay

  Familiarity information: WEAPONS PLATFORM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WEAPONS PLATFORM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

platform; weapons platform

Hypernyms ("weapons platform" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weapons platform"):

gun enclosure; gun turret; turret (a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation)


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