antiballistic missile

1. 1.

   a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles

   “the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs”

   SynonymsABM

   Broaderguided missile

Questions about antiballistic missile

What does antiballistic missile mean?

antiballistic missile means "a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles".

What is another word for antiballistic missile?

Close synonyms include ABM. 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 antiballistic missile a common word?

antiballistic 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.