air-to-ground

1. 1.

   operating from or designed to be fired from aircraft at targets on the ground

   “air-to-surface missiles”

   Synonymsair-to-surface

Questions about air-to-ground

What does air-to-ground mean?

air-to-ground means "operating from or designed to be fired from aircraft at targets on the ground".

How many syllables are in air-to-ground?

air-to-ground has 3 syllables and divides as air--to--ground under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for air-to-ground?

Close synonyms include air-to-surface. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air-to-ground a common word?

air-to-ground 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.