SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("surface-to-air missile system" is a kind of...):

shipboard system (a system designed to work as a coherent entity on board a naval ship)

Meronyms (parts of "surface-to-air missile system"):

SAM; surface-to-air missile (a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target)

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