surface-to-air missile

What does surface-to-air missile mean?

surface-to-air missile means "a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target".

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

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

surface-to-air 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surface-to-air missile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.