TARGET AREA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The location of the target that is to be hit

Synonyms:

target; target area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("target area" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

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

ground zero (the target of a projectile (as a bomb or missile))

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