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Definition of Antiaircraft
1. Noun. Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.
Specialized synonyms: Bofors Gun
Generic synonyms: Gun
Terms within: Predictor
2. Adjective. Designed for defense from a surface position against air attack.
Definition of Antiaircraft
1. Adjective. (military) Intended to attack aircraft. ¹
2. Noun. (military) Antiaircraft artillery. ¹
3. Noun. (military) An antiaircraft artillery organization. ¹
4. Noun. (military) Antiaircraft fire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antiaircraft
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiaircraft
Literary usage of Antiaircraft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II by Charles D. Melson (1996)
"Elements of the 9th, 10th, and llth to Rendova Island, resistance and then Photo
courtesy of the US Naval Institute set up its artillery and antiaircraft ..."
2. Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars by Mark (1995)
"Even so, it is doubtful that STRANGLE would have had the effect that it did if
German antiaircraft defenses had not been so weak and the Luftwaffe ..."
3. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"Night Bombing and antiaircraft Brought About Valuable Developments in Aeroplane
Construction The increasing range of the antiaircraft guns forced high ..."
4. Armor-Cavalry Regiments: Army National Guard Lineage edited by Jeffrey Lynn Pope, Leonid E. Kondratiuk (1999)
"Reorganized and redesignated 10 September 1943 as the 121st antiaircraft Artillery
Gun Battalion. Reorganized and redesignated ..."
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