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ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
Synonyms:
ECM; electronic countermeasures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("electronic countermeasures" is a kind of...):
electronic warfare; EW (military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic countermeasures"):
electronic deception (the deliberate use of electromagnetic energy in a manner intended to convey misleading information)
electronic jamming; jam; jamming (deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems)