anti-aircraft

anti-aircraft

See also: antiaircraft

English

Alternative forms

• antaircraft (rare)
• antiaircraft

Etymology

anti- +‎ aircraft.

Adjective

anti-aircraft (not comparable)

1. (military) Intended to attack aircraft.

Usage notes

• The hyphenated form is more common in the British corpus while the solid form is more common in the American corpus.[1] GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell anti- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]

Synonyms

• AA, double-A
• AAA, triple-A
• ack-ack
• air-defence, air-defense
• anti-air

Translations

intended to attack aircraft

Armenian: հակաօդային (hy) (hakaōdayin) Belarusian: проціпаве́траны (procipavjétrany), супрацьпаве́траны (supracʹpavjétrany), зені́тны (zjenítny), зэні́тны (zenítny) Bulgarian: противовъзду́шен (protivovǎzdúšen) Catalan: antiaeri (ca) Czech: protiletadlový m, protiletecký m Estonian: õhutõrje Finnish: ilmatorjunta- (fi) French: anti-aérien (fr) Galician: antiaéreo German: Flugabwehr- (de) Greek: αντιαεροπορικός (el) (antiaeroporikós) Hindi: जहाज़मार (jahāzmār) Italian: antiaereo (it) Macedonian: противвоздушен (protivvozdušen) Polish: przeciwlotniczy (pl) Portuguese: antiaéreo Romanian: antiaerian (ro) Russian: противовозду́шный (ru) (protivovozdúšnyj), зени́тный (ru) (zenítnyj) Slovak: protilietadlový, protiletecký Slovene: protiletalski Spanish: antiaéreo Swedish: luftvärns- Turkish: uçaksavar (tr) Ukrainian: протипові́тря́ний (protypovítrjányj), зені́тний (zenítnyj)

Noun

anti-aircraft (countable and uncountable, plural anti-aircraft or anti-aircrafts)

1. (military) Anti-aircraft artillery.
2. (military) An anti-aircraft artillery organization.
3. (military) Anti-aircraft fire.

Synonyms

• AA, double-A
• AAA, triple-A
• ack-ack
• air defence, air defense
• Archie

Translations

anti-aircraft artillery

Catalan: antiaeri (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 高射炮 (zh) (gāoshèpào) Finnish: ilmatorjuntatuli (fi) Hindi: जहाज़मार तोप m (jahāzmār top) Japanese: 高射砲 (ja) (こうしゃほう, kōshahō) Romanian: artilerie antiaeriană f Spanish: antiaéreo m Swedish: luftvärn (sv) n

References

1. antiaircraft, anti-aircraft at Google Ngram Viewer
2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov

Further reading

• Anti-aircraft warfare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia