NOUN | artifact | antiaircraft gun, antiaircraft, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun | artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes |
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Meaning | artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes. | |
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Synonyms | antiaircraft, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun | |
Parts | predictor | A computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival |
Narrower | Bofors gun | An automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun |
Broader | gun | A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) |
Spanish | antiaéreo, cañón antiaéreo | |
Catalan | antiaeri |
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