electronic warfare

1. 1.

   military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum

   SynonymsEW

   Broadermilitary action

   Narrowerelectronic countermeasureselectronic counter-countermeasureselectronic warfare-support measureselectromagnetic intrusion

   military

Questions about electronic warfare

What does electronic warfare mean?

electronic warfare means "military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum".

What is another word for electronic warfare?

Close synonyms include EW. 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 electronic warfare a common word?

electronic warfare 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.