HyperDic: ack-ack_gun

English > 1 sense of the expression ack-ack gun:
NOUNartifactack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ackartillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
English > ack-ack gun: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaningartillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.
Synonymsantiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack
PartspredictorA computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
NarrowerBofors gunAn automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
BroadergunA weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
Spanishantiaéreo, cañón antiaéreo
Catalanantiaeri

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