ICBM

ICBM

English

Noun

ICBM (plural ICBMs)

1. (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

• IBM

Coordinate terms

• ABM
• SLBM
• LRBM
• IRBM
• MRBM
• SRBM

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

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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) 

1. (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)