Definition of Exocet

1. Noun. A guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships.

Generic synonyms: Guided Missile

Definition of Exocet

1. Noun. A French antiship missile ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exocet

Exaeretodon
Excalibur
Excel
Excellence
Excellencies
Excellency
Exchequer
Exd.
Executive Office of the President
Exeter
Exhibit A
Exmoor
Exmoorian
Exmoorians
Exner's plexus
Exocet (current term)
Exocoetidae
Exocycloida
Exocœtus
Exod.
Exodus
Exoduster
Exodusters
Exophiala jeanselmei
Exophiala werneckii
Exopterygota
Exotic Shorthair
Exotic Shorthairs
Expressed Sequence Tag
Extensible Markup Language

Literary usage of Exocet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. French Security And Defence Policy: Current Developments And Future Prospects by Fredrik Wetterqvist (1990)
"Aerospatiale has sold more than 2800 Exocet anti-ship missiles in all ... The ANS would be three times faster than the Exocet, reach targets up to 200 km ..."

2. U. S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With Marine Forces Afloat in edited by Ronald J. Brown (2000)
"About four years earlier, during the Tanker War, the USS Stark (FFG 31) was hit by two French-made Exocet antiship missiles fired from an Iraqi aircraft. ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"... with it few secondary characteristics ; there are winged mammals, the bats ; there are flying fish, the exocet.s ; and there once were flying lizards. ..."

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