ICBM

English

Noun

ICBM (plural ICBMs)

1. (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
   • 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:

     Just sing out a Te Deum / When you see that ICBM / And the party will be come-as-you-are

   • 2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:

     Iraq could test a North Korean-type ICBM that could deliver a several-hundred-kilogram payload to the United States in the last half of the next decade [the decade beginning with calendar year 2000] depending on the level of foreign assistance.

Synonyms

• IBM

Coordinate terms

• ABM
• SLBM
• LRBM
• IRBM
• MRBM
• SRBM

Translations

abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile

• Bulgarian: МКБР (MKBR)
• Catalan: ICBM, MIRV
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ICBM (zh)

• Dutch: SLBM
• Italian: MBIC
• Japanese: ICBM (ja) (ICBM)
• Latvian: SKBR
• Spanish: ICBM

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ICBM.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) アイシービーエ​ム [àíshííbííéꜜmù] (Nakadaka – [7])
• IPA^(key): [a̠iɕiːbʲiːe̞mɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

ICBM(アイシービーエム) • (aishībīemu) 

1. (weaponry) an ICBM

Synonyms

• 大(たい)陸(りく)間(かん)弾(だん)道(どう)ミサイル (tairikukan dandō misairu)