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ANTIAIRCRAFT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Synonyms:
ack-ack; ack-ack gun; antiaircraft; antiaircraft gun; flack; flak; pom-pom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
Derivation:
antiaircraft (designed for defense from a surface position against air attack)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Designed for defense from a surface position against air attack
Classified under:
Similar:
defensive (intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack)
Derivation:
antiaircraft (artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes)
