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See also: antiaircraft
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- antaircraft (rare)
- antiaircraft
Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]anti-aircraft (not comparable)
- (military) Intended to attack aircraft.
- 1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
- Special lamps were provided for working during the blackout, and an anti-aircraft gun, manned by the R.A.O.C., was mounted on the coal depot line.
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:
- Truth's ships are clustered above the excavation site. And his infantry has deployed anti-aircraft batteries around the perimeter.
Usage notes
[edit]- The hyphenated form is more common in the British corpus while the solid form is more common in the American corpus.[1] GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell anti- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]intended to attack aircraft
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Noun
[edit]anti-aircraft (countable and uncountable, plural anti-aircraft or anti-aircrafts)
- (military) Anti-aircraft artillery.
- 1944 June 3, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 839:
- I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again.
- (military) An anti-aircraft artillery organization.
- (military) Anti-aircraft fire.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]anti-aircraft artillery
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References
[edit]- ^ antiaircraft, anti-aircraft at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading
[edit]Anti-aircraft warfare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia