ANTIAIRCRAFT GUN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Synonyms:

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("antiaircraft gun" is a kind of...):

gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

Meronyms (parts of "antiaircraft gun"):

predictor (a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antiaircraft gun"):

Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun)