air-to-ground missile

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   a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground

   Synonymsair-to-surface missile

   Broadermissile

Questions about air-to-ground missile

What does air-to-ground missile mean?

air-to-ground missile means "a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground".

What is another word for air-to-ground missile?

Close synonyms include air-to-surface missile. 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 missile a common word?

air-to-ground missile 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.