ICBM en · NOUN
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
Iraq could test a North Korean-type ICBM that could deliver a several-hundred-kilogram payload to the United States in the last half of the next decade [the decade beginning with calendar year 2000] depending on the level of foreign assistance.
2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:Just sing out a Te Deum / When you see that ICBM / And the party will be come-as-you-are
1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICBMs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
LRBM · IRBM · ABM · SRBM · MRBM · ALBM · SLBM
Hypernyms
weapon · ballistic missile · missile
Relateds
Translations (11)
ru МБР (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · es ICBM (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · ja ICBM (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · ca ICBM (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · nl SLBM (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · it MBIC (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · uk МБР (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · ca MIRV (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · cmn ICBM (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · bg МКБР (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile) · lv SKBR (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile)