ICBM

English

Noun

ICBM (plural ICBMs)

(weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
- 2002, Alexander T. Lennon, Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-first Century, MIT Press, →ISBN:
  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.

Synonyms

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Coordinate terms

Translations

abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile

Bulgarian: МКБР (MKBR)
Catalan: ICBM, MIRV
Chinese:
Mandarin: ICBM (zh)
Dutch: SLBM
Italian: MBIC
Japanese: ICBM (ja)
Latvian: SKBR
Spanish: ICBM

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ICBM.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) アイシービーエム [àíshííbííéꜜmù] (Nakadaka – [7])
IPA^(key): [a̠iɕiːbʲiːe̞mɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

I(アイ)C(シー)B(ビー)M(エム) • (aishībīemu)

(weaponry) an ICBM

Synonyms

大(たい)陸(りく)間(かん)弾(だん)道(どう)ミサイル (tairikukan dandō misairu)

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