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Relating to a limited period or distance
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short-range
Word definitions for short-range in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to the near future; "a short-range policy" limited to short distances; "short-range planes"; "a short-range shot"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN missile ▪ How distant now seem the quarrels of the spring over the introduction of new short-range missiles . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Short-range missiles in Asia do not pose a direct threat to the U.S. ▪ ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Intended for use on something close or nearby.
Usage examples of short-range.
Around him, the Tsorans wielded their lances and clubs and trank guns, but the sculpers were too quick for the short-range tranks and only momentarily deterred by the hastily made weapons.
He locked onto the short-range beacons and manuevered into the designated guide path while Saber talked to the flight controllers and started providing minute-by-minute course adjustments.
The tactical display showed the New Republic Star Destroyers decelerating alongside the escape corridor in staggered positions, each retaining an escort of a single frigate and two squadrons of short-range starfighters.
These are oneand two-man craft, armed with short-ranged missiles and light lasers, capable of operating up to several light-minutes from their carriers.
His entire being, focused on his targeting scope, willed his heavy, short-ranged close-attack missiles through the wavering distortion of this unreal-seeming space as the 509th Fighter Squadron fired.
Both ships began to fire their phasers in return, in random sprays of short-range energy.
But to snare short-range signals, such as walkie-talkie and coastal communications, the antennas and receivers would have to get close to the action.
Instead of heavy concentrations of mobile field guns, the Israelis chose to depend heavily on large numbers of short-range mortars, and attack aircraft.
What the sensor tech would have seen, had he been disciplined and duty-conscious enough to still be looking into his short-range screen, was ten Jadthu-class Republic landers climbing, straight up, within the Downrush Fallssingle file, battered by the thundering water, but perfectly cloaked from long-range detection.
What the sensor tech would have seen, had he been disciplined and duty-conscious enough to still be looking into his short-range screen, was ten Jadthu-class Republic landers climbing, straight up, within the Downrush Falls-single file, battered by the thundering water, but perfectly cloaked from long-range detection.
It would also be supported by almost continuous barrages of hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles from the mainland and TAS vessels sailing with the fleet.
But it was the guns, the eighteen-pounders and the broad-mouthed carronades, the genuine short-range smashers, that really fascinated him and his followers: even the Vizier's benign, intelligent old face took on a predatory gleam.
The radar was attached to a Crotale 2000 surface-to-air missile system, a relatively short-range mobile SAM intended primarily for point defense of airfields and other strategic targets.
Dog Ear was an early-warning radar associated with the SA-13 short-range missile system.
The little vessels were ideal for short-range exploration from a central base, and they were far handier in an atmosphere than ships of greater size.