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Definition: Air Defense |
Air DefenseNoun1. Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify their effectiveness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military | All measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action. See also active air defense; passive air defense. (references) |
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Crosswords: Air Defense |
| English words defined with "air defense": active air defense, antiaircraft ♦ Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding ♦ Dowding, dowdy ♦ Hugh Dowding ♦ passive air defense. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "air defense": air defense area, air defense command, air defense commander, air defense identification zone, air defense ship, air surveillance plotting board, area of operational interest ♦ clear weather air defense fighter ♦ day air defense fighter ♦ engagement control ♦ firepower umbrella ♦ ground observer organization ♦ hold fire ♦ LIGHT AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY CREWMEMBER ♦ raid report, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ sector commander, short-range air defense engagement zone, significant track, stone dust ♦ target allocation, track handover ♦ wild weasel, World Geographic Reference System. (references) |
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Screenplays | Of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello! Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened It's a friendly call. Of course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly you probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am I am positive, Dmitri. Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick. Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes. Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then I'd say that, ah well, ah we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri. I know they're our boys. All right, well listen now. Who should we call? Who should we call, Dmitri? The wha-whe, the People you, sorry, you faded away there. The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Paintings. Air defense battleship group I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The newly revitalized air defense has a Hawk missile program for which the US is providing training. (references) | |
In the first half of 2000, the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) successfully purchased used F-16 air defense fighters from the United States. (references) | ||
In addition there is a requirement for purchasing thermal cameras, upgrading the operation center for project 776 (Automated Air Defense Systems), generators, and three-dimensional radars. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | Air defense, helicopters, artillery wheeled armored vehicles, and simulations. (references) |
Somalia | The Somali National Army was made up of the army, navy, air force, and air defense command. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | The air defense has a Hawk missile program for which the United States is providing training. (references) | |
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Expressions using "air defense": active air defense ♦ air defense action area ♦ air defense area ♦ air defense artillery ♦ air defense command ♦ air defense commander ♦ air defense control ♦ air defense control center ♦ air defense early warning ♦ air defense ground environment ♦ air defense identification zone ♦ air defense missile ♦ air defense operations area ♦ air defense region ♦ air defense sector ♦ air defense ship ♦ army air defense ♦ day air defense fighter ♦ guided air defense missile ♦ hungarian air defense troops ♦ passive air defense ♦ suppression of enemy air defense. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
air defense artillery | 37 |
air defense department force | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "air defense"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 空防 (air force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | légvédelem (ack-ack, air defence, anti-aircraft defense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 防空 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうくう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airay efenseday defesa aérea. (various references) противовоздушная оборона (air defence, air-defence, air-to-air defense). (various references) protivavionska odbrana (flak). (various references) defensa aérea. (various references) hava savunması (air defence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: deaneries, redefines. | |
-2 letters: arsenide, definers, enserfed, nearside, nereides, redefies, redefine, redenies, serenade. | |
-3 letters: aniseed, deafens, dearies, defense, defiers, definer, defines, deniers, endears, eserine, fadeins, faeries, farside, feeders, fenders, finders, freesia, friends, infares, needers, needier, nereids, randies, readies, redfins, refeeds, refinds, refined, refines, resined, sandier, sardine, seedier, serifed, sneered. | |
-4 letters: aedine, aeried, aeries, aiders, arisen, arsine, deafen, deafer, deairs, dearie, defers, defier, defies, define, denari, denars, denier, denies, denser, desire, dienes, dinars, diners, drains, earned, easier, eiders, endear, enders, enserf, erased, fadein, faders, faerie, fainer, faired, feared, feased, feeder, fender, feriae, ferias, ferine, fiends, finder, fraise, friend, frisee, infare, infers, irades, nadirs, neared, needer, nereid, nereis, rained, raised, ranees, ranids, redans, redfin, rediae, redias, reefed, refeed, refind, refine, reined, resaid, reseda, reseed, reseen, resend, reside, rinsed, sained, sander, seared, seeder, seined, seiner, sender, serein, serene, serine, snared, snider. | |
-5 letters: aedes, aerie, afire, aider, aides, aired, airns, anise, arise, aside, dares, darns, deair, deans, dears, deers, defer, defis, denar, denes, dense, diene, dinar, diner, dines, drain, drees, dries, eared, earns, eased, eerie, eider, ender, erase, ernes, fader, fades, fairs, fanes, fards, fared, fares, fears, fease, feeds, fends, feres, feria, ferns, fiars, fiend, finds, fined, finer, fines, fired, fires, firns, freed, frees, frena, fried, fries, frise, ideas, infer, infra, irade, nadir, naifs, nards, nares, naris, nears, needs, neifs, nerds, nides, raids, rains, raise, rands, ranee, ranid, ranis, rased, reads, redan, redes, redia, reeds, reefs, refed, reifs, reins, rends, resee, resid, resin, rides, rinds, rinse, risen, safer, saned, saner, saree, sarin, sedan, seder, seine, serai, sered, serif, serin, sired, siree, siren, snare, sneer, snide. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-i-n-r-s" | |
+3 letters: confederacies. | |
+4 letters: defenestrating, defenestration, differentiates. | |
+5 letters: defenestrations, featherbeddings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 44 65 66 65 6E 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100110 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r   D e f e n s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0044 0065 0066 0065 006E 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357584238717271808571 |
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