missile
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
missile (plural missiles)
- Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
- The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
- (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
- That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
- French: projectile
- German: Geschoss, Fluggeschoss
- Portuguese: míssil
- Russian: раке́та
- Spanish: proyectil
- French: missile
- German: Lenkflugkörper, Lenkwaffe
- Italian: missile
- Portuguese: míssil
- Russian: раке́та
- Spanish: misil
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