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SAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("SAM" is a kind of...):
guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "SAM"):
MANPAD (a man-portable surface-to-air missile)
Stinger (a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder)
Holonyms ("SAM" is a part of...):
surface-to-air missile system (the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft)
Context examples:
Sam went and returned.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
SAM measured small organic molecules that came off the mudstone sample.
(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)
The finding came from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable laser spectrometer.
(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)
Sam, loud and overbearing as he was, she rather regretted when he went, for he was clever and intelligent, and glad to be employed in any errand in the town; and though spurning the remonstrances of Susan, given as they were, though very reasonable in themselves, with ill-timed and powerless warmth, was beginning to be influenced by Fanny's services and gentle persuasions; and she found that the best of the three younger ones was gone in him: Tom and Charles being at least as many years as they were his juniors distant from that age of feeling and reason, which might suggest the expediency of making friends, and of endeavouring to be less disagreeable.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The rock samples were analyzed by SAM, which uses an oven to heat the samples (in excess of 900 degrees Fahrenheit, or 500 degrees Celsius) to release organic molecules from the powdered rock.
(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)
