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air-to-air

(âr′tə-âr′)

adj.

a. Launched from an aircraft with an aircraft as a target: air-to-air missiles.

b. Occurring between or involving airborne aircraft: air-to-air communication.

2. Of or relating to the transfer of heat between two bodies of air.

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air-to-air

adj

(Aeronautics) operating between aircraft in flight

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air′-to-air′

adj.

1. operating between airborne objects, esp. aircraft: air-to-air missiles.

adv.

2. from one aircraft, missile, or the like to another while in flight: They refueled air-to-air.

[1940–45]

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Adj.

air-to-air - operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight; "air-to-air missiles"; "air-to-air communications"

air-to-ground, air-to-surface - operating from or designed to be fired from aircraft at targets on the ground; "air-to-surface missiles"

surface-to-air - operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target; "surface-to-air missiles"

Translations

air-to-air

[ˌɛətəˈɛəʳ] ADJ [missile] → aire-aire

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

air-to-air

[ˈɛətʊˈɛəʳ] adj (Mil) → aria-aria inv

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