Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
anti-aircraft \an`ti-air"craft\, a. designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context military English) Intended to attack aircraft. n. 1 (context military English) Anti-aircraft artillery. 2 (context military English) An anti-aircraft artillery organization. 3 (context military English) Anti-aircraft fire.
Wikipedia
Anti-Aircraft is a two-player arcade game by Atari, Inc, originally released in 1975. The game is sometimes referred to as Anti-Aircraft II, denoting the two-player aspect of the game.
Usage examples of "anti-aircraft".
What are the estimated battle strengths of all British divisions in Italy and in North Africa in men and guns, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft?
Men ran to their stations, tanks cranked their engines, anti-aircraft batteries pounded from the hill behind him.
It was the electronic call of a Soviet radar codenamed Whiff, a troubling sound that meant Russian anti-aircraft weapons had now been set up.
Other intercepts revealed the parameters of Soviet Fan Song radars, used to guide surface-to-air missiles, and the exact location of a new Fire Can radar associated with Russian 57- and 85-millimeter anti-aircraft cannons.
Across the gap, inside the sister walkway, an anti-aircraft battery had been installed and I remembered thinking more than once about coming up here one night and waiting for the stubborn German bomber pilot to fly his Dornier along the river like the Luftwaffe before him he always used the Thames as a guide into London and the docks then blasting him out of the sky as he went by.
On other occasions, when the American planes arrived over their targets, anti-aircraft weapons were waiting, pointing in their direction, with deadly results.
Instead, he picked out the anti-aircraft guns, standing tall and ungainly as giraffes on their circular baseplates, the long barrels already pointed skywards, ready to hurl their air-burst shrapnel as high as 20,000 feet into the sky.
At full speed, it could outrun almost any anti-aircraft guided missile, though in its eight years of active service, none had ever been fired at it.
It was not Biggs who woke him but the shouts of the ground crews, the sound of running men, the deep bellowing tone of the anti-aircraft guns along the edge of the orchard, and the roaring overhead of a Mercedes aircraft engine.
The advanced KS-2+ anti-aircraft missiles, the anti-satellite weaponry, longer ranged and more accurate ballistic missiles, improvements to Russian supplied aircraft and tank designs, all of these were products of the General’s efforts.
Lifting his gaze for a possible objective, Biggles ground his teeth with rage as he saw a line of white anti-aircraft gunfire bursts trailing across the sky, with a fleeting black speck at their head.
Suddenly there was a woof and a crack of bursting explosive, and an anti-aircraft shell burst above and slightly ahead of him.
He knew that China's Luhu-class ships were new, fast, and armed with Crotale anti-aircraft missiles, among other treats.
The black pelicans and their Nozdrul pilots were pecked from the air by anti-aircraft gulls and the dragon was cornered by the Cub Scout and peppered with rubbertipped arrows until it suffered a complete nervous breakdown and collapsed with a heavy _thud_.
This facility, which housed 4300 regular army troops as well as three squadrons of naval attack craft, possessed the Canal Nazis' most sophisticated anti-aircraft fire control system.