Definition of Antiaircraft gun

1. Noun. Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.

Exact synonyms: Ack-ack, Ack-ack Gun, Antiaircraft, Flack, Flak, Pom-pom
Specialized synonyms: Bofors Gun
Generic synonyms: Gun
Terms within: Predictor
Derivative terms: Antiaircraft

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiaircraft Gun

antiaddictive
antiaditis
antiadministration
antiadrenergic
antiadvertising
antiae
antiageing
antiagglutinin
antiaggregant
antiaggregatory
antiaggression
antiaging
antiair
antiaircraft
antiaircraft fire
antiaircraft gun (current term)
antiaircrafts
antiairport
antialarmist
antialarmists
antialbumid
antialbumids
antialbuminuric
antialbumose
antialcohol
antialcoholism
antialexin
antialgae
antialgal
antialias

Literary usage of Antiaircraft gun

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

1. Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island by Robert J. Cressman (1992)
"As early as 1915, the US Army, recognizing the for a high-angle firing antiaircraft gun and resolving to build one from existing stocks, ..."

2. Drugs of Abuse (1996) edited by Carol Gibson (1996)
"ZU-23-2 antiaircraft gun two 23-mm. air-cooled cannons 400 rounds per minute ... 5-60 antiaircraft gun 57-mm. antiaircraft gun 70 rounds per minute ..."

3. Changes in Organization Found Necessary During Progress of the European War by Army War College (U.S.) (1916)
"20 Armored motor battery 21 Motor machine-gun battery 21 antiaircraft gun detachment 21 Workshop for six antiaircraft gun detachments 21 F. Engineers 21 ..."

4. Battering the Boche by Preston Gibson (1918)
"As the Boches were sending over so many 'planes it was necessary that the anti-aircraft guns be kept in active operation. An antiaircraft gun is a very ..."

5. National Service Library edited by Charles Evans Kilbourne (1917)
"The best method for avoiding antiaircraft gun fire consists in the rapid change ... The antiaircraft gun has forced the average reconnaissance to be made at ..."

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