Definitions for surface-to-air

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surface-to-air sur·face-to-air

Spelling: [sur-fis-too-air]

IPA: /ˈsɜr fɪs tuˈɛər/

Surface-To-Air is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1439 anagrams from letters in surface-to-air (--aacefiorrstu).

Definitions for surface-to-air

adverb

1. from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere:

adjective

1. (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.

Origin of surface-to-air

First recorded in 1945-50

Examples for surface-to-air

He still required men who knew how to operate heavy weapons such as, say, surface-to-air missile batteries.

If a surface-to-air missile capability did exist at that time, the Chinese would have supplied the necessary replacements.

Orders were given to use a new weapon, an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile, or SAM.

“SA-6s are the least of our concerns for CAS in the modern age of surface-to-air missile system proliferation,” the official said.

Its surface-to-air missiles are Soviet technology from three decades ago.