English > guided missile: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices. |
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| Parts | guidance system, guidance device | A system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile) |
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| homing device | The mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective |
| warhead, payload, load | The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents |
| Narrower | Exocet | A guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships |
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| antiballistic missile, ABM | A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles |
| buzz bomb, robot bomb, flying bomb, doodlebug, V-1 | A small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb |
| space probe | A rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere |
| surface-to-air missile, SAM | A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target |
| Broader | missile | A rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives |
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| Spanish | misil teledirigido |
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| Catalan | míssil teledirigit |
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