anti-aircraft

alternative antaircraft · alternative antiaircraft

1. not comparablegovernmentIntended to attack aircraft.

   Truth's ships are clustered above the excavation site. And his infantry has deployed anti-aircraft batteries around the perimeter.

   2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest

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   Special lamps were provided for working during the blackout, and an anti-aircraft gun, manned by the R.A.O.C., was mounted on the coal depot line.

   1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47

   Synonyms: air-defense, air-defence, anti-air, surface-to-air

plural anti-aircrafts · alternative antaircraft · alternative antiaircraft

1. countableuncountablegovernmentAnti-aircraft artillery.

   I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again.

   1944 June 3, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 839

2. countableuncountablegovernmentAn anti-aircraft artillery organization.
3. countableuncountablegovernmentAnti-aircraft fire.