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ANTIAIRCRAFT

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• ANTIAIRCRAFT (noun)
The noun ANTIAIRCRAFT has 1 sense:

1. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Familiarity information: ANTIAIRCRAFT used as a noun is very rare.

• ANTIAIRCRAFT (adjective)
The adjective ANTIAIRCRAFT has 1 sense:

1. designed for defense from a surface position against air attack

Familiarity information: ANTIAIRCRAFT used as an adjective is very rare.

• ANTIAIRCRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ack-ack; ack-ack gun; antiaircraft; antiaircraft gun; pom-pom; flack; flak

Hypernyms ("antiaircraft" is a kind of...):

gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

Meronyms (parts of "antiaircraft"):

predictor (a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival)

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

Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun)

• ANTIAIRCRAFT (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Designed for defense from a surface position against air attack

Similar:

defensive (intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack)

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