Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun surface-to-air_missile

1 sense of surface-to-air missile

Sense 1
surface-to-air missile, SAM -- (a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target)
       => guided missile -- (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)