surface-to-air

1. 1.

   operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target

   “surface-to-air missiles”

   Antonymsair-to-surfaceair-to-air

Questions about surface-to-air

What does surface-to-air mean?

surface-to-air means "operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target".

How many syllables are in surface-to-air?

surface-to-air has 5 syllables: sur-fa-ce--to--air. The stress falls on "ce-".

What is the opposite of surface-to-air?

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

Is surface-to-air a common word?

surface-to-air is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.