AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE

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

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

1. a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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