surface-to-air

adjective

sur·​face-to-air ˈsər-fəs-ˌtü-ˈer How to pronounce surface-to-air (audio)
: launched from the ground against a target in the air

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Street Road starts about thirteen miles west of the McDonald’s, near Nike Park, named for the Nike missile battery, now defunct, that was installed when East Coast cities were ringed with surface-to-air missiles, in case there was a Soviet ICBM attack. The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024 Zhu also denounced the U.S.'s recent $2 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, approved last week that includes surface-to-air Missile Systems, radar equipment, and related equipment. Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024 Fighting off twice or three times that number with dwindling reserves of surface-to-air missiles will be a bigger challenge. David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 However, Iran has armed the rebels with a surface-to-air missile known as the 358 for years. Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for surface-to-air 

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of surface-to-air was in 1949

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“Surface-to-air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surface-to-air. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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