guided missile

See also: guided-missile

English

Etymology

From guided +‎ missile.

Noun

guided missile (plural guided missiles)

1. An unmanned, self-propelled vehicle that travels through the air to deliver a warhead to a predetermined point, keeping itself on course by making corrections via its control surfaces.
   • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 35:

     Lawrence was a rocket man, working on guided missiles.

Derived terms

• (abbreviation) G
• (adjective) guided-missile
• guided-missile battlecruiser
• guided-missile battleship
• guided-missile corvette
• guided-missile cruiser, CG, CGN
• guided-missile destroyer, DDG. DG
• guided-missile frigate, FFG, FG
• guided-missile ship
• guided-missile submarine, SSG, SSGN

Translations

unmanned, self-propelled vehicle that travels through the air

• Armenian: կառավարելի հրթիռ (kaṙavareli hrtʻiṙ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導彈 / 导弹 (zh) (dǎodàn), 導向飛彈 / 导向飞弹 (zh) (dǎoxiàng fēidàn)

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• Finnish: ohjus (fi)
• German: Lenkflugkörper (de) m
• Hungarian: irányított rakéta
• Indonesian: peluru kendali (id), rudal berpemandu
• Khmer: កាំជ្រួចផ្លោងបញ្ជាទិស (kamcruəc plaoŋ bɑɲcie tɨh)
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• Polish: pocisk kierowany m
• Romanian: rachetă ghidată f
• Russian: управля́емая раке́та (ru) (upravljájemaja rakéta)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: styrd missil c, robot (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ballistic missile
• cruise missile