Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Missile \Mis"sile\, n. [L. missile.]
A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
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A rocket-propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive materials to a target.
Note: Numerous types of rocket-propelled missile[2] are now used in modern warfare. Some types with names indicating their range or function are: antiaircraft missile; ballistic missile; cruise missile; antiballistic missile missile; air-to-air missile; air-to-ground missile; guided missile; intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM); intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM); surface-to-air missile.
Wiktionary
n. An unmanned, self-propelled vehicle that travels through the air to deliver a warhead to a predetermined point, keeping itself on course by making corrections via its control surfaces.
WordNet
n. a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices
Wikipedia
Guided Missile was a London-based independent record label set up by Paul Kearney in 1994, and active until the early 2000s. Guided Missile Records focused on releases by underground indie bands through the late 1990s, and Guided Missile continues to the present day as an events promoter, at venues such as The Lexington and, until closure, the Buffalo Bar.
A series of 'tribute' records in the early 2000s culminated in a minor UK chart hit by Diff'rent Darkness in 2003.
Guided Missile has been acclaimed as an inspiration for current UK DIY labels such as Upset the Rhythm.
Usage examples of "guided missile".
You will see two of their new Takanami class guided missile destroyers and one of their Kongo class Aegis destroyers, the Myoko, form up with us in the next hour or so.
The pulse Doppler attack radar signaled lock-on, and firing information was instantly fed to the AA-7 radar-guided missile.
The F-16 pilots had an easy attack run, and seconds later recorded a successful AIM-7 radar-guided missile kill.
Six letters that she had sent him over a period of several months had somehow got mistakenly shipped to the wrong ship in the Mediterranean when they were supposed to have come to the guided missile destroyer he was serving on off the coast of New Zealand.
I guess we all had dreams of guided missile cruisers or giant carriers, as far as being part of a spit-and-polish organization, but everybody kept telling us the real Navy was in tin cans.
A radar-guided missile had just locked onto his aircraft, was tracking them now from astern.
A wire-guided missile leaped from the turret and instantly hit square in the middle of the two center vehicles.
Normandy, an Aegis class guided missile cruiser (similar to the one that accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the straits of Hormuz, killing all 290 people), was also operating in the vicinity.