UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Air Force mean? 

• UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES AIR FORCE has 1 sense:

1. the airforce of the United States of America; the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The airforce of the United States of America; the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Air Force; U. S. Air Force; United States Air Force; US Air Force; USAF

Hypernyms ("United States Air Force" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "United States Air Force"):

AFRL; Air Force Research Laboratory (a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces)

United States Air Force Academy; US Air Force Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force)

ACC; Air Combat Command (a command that is the primary provider of air combat weapon systems to the United States Air Force; operates fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management, and rescue aircraft)

AFSPC; Air Force Space Command (a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible for defending the United States through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations)

Air National Guard; ANG (a civilian reserve component of the United States Air Force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies)

AFISR; Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Air Force ISR (an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority; operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms)

Holonyms ("United States Air Force" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

 Context examples 

Friday September 22 2019, was when, according to earlier event plans, millions of people were to storm Area 51, a classified facility within the United States Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range, and the world was to finally learn of its secrets.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)