air-to-air

1. 1.

   operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight

   “air-to-air missiles”

   “air-to-air communications”

   Antonymssurface-to-airair-to-surface

Questions about air-to-air

What does air-to-air mean?

air-to-air means "operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight".

How many syllables are in air-to-air?

air-to-air has 3 syllables: air--to--air. The stress falls on "air-".

What is the opposite of air-to-air?

The recorded antonyms are surface-to-air, air-to-surface.

Is air-to-air a common word?

air-to-air is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.