air-to-surface

1. 1.

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

   “air-to-surface missiles”

   Synonymsair-to-ground

   Antonymsair-to-airsurface-to-air

Questions about air-to-surface

What does air-to-surface mean?

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

How many syllables are in air-to-surface?

air-to-surface has 4 syllables: air--to--sur-face. The stress falls on "to-".

What is another word for air-to-surface?

Close synonyms include air-to-ground. 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.

What is the opposite of air-to-surface?

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

Is air-to-surface a common word?

air-to-surface 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.