Crossword clues for interceptor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interceptor \In`ter*cept"or\, n. Same as intercepter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin interceptor, agent noun from intercipere (see intercept). As a type of fast fighter aircraft, from 1930.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that intercepts something else. 2 A fast, maneuverable fighter aircraft designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft before they can attack. 3 A guided missile designed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles. 4 (context architecture engineering English) A device to trap, remove, or separate deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter (such as oil, grease, gasoline, sand, and sediment) from normal waste conveyed through it, permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity. 5 (context computing programming English) A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.
WordNet
n. a fast maneuverable fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft
Wikipedia
Interceptor may refer to:
Interceptor is a British game show created by Jacques Antoine, Jean Jacques Pasquier and Malcolm Heyworth. It was produced by Chatsworth in association with Thames and shown on the ITV network during the summer of 1989, with one last episode held back and shown on 1 January 1990 for a New Year special. It was made in between Treasure Hunt and The Crystal Maze, game shows from the same production company.
The show was hosted by former tennis player and Treasure Hunt sky-runner Annabel Croft. The eponymous Interceptor was played by actor Sean O'Kane.
Only eight episodes (one series) were made. It was re-run on digital TV channel Challenge from 2001 onwards. A public vote on UKGameshows in 2002 saw the series voted the UK's 13th best game show.
Usage examples of "interceptor".
The supersonic Russian bombers went to afterburner and activated their radars in a contest with time, distance, and American interceptors.
Moreover, Germany had given the Turkish military Patriot antimissile interceptors, a move intended to protect the Turks against an Iraqi missile attack, but which the Bush administration hoped would make Ankara more receptive to the idea of opening a northern front.
But SinoInd interceptors lay in wait at places like Kabul, Ashkhabad, and Isfahan, relying on visual intercept and Indian pilots flying the colors of Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan.
If the converter-ship stayed far out of the Belos, it might as well not leave its home port, for Earth radar would pick up the distant Martians, and send interceptors.
An all-weather interceptor, the F-14 has transoceanic range, Mach 2 speed, and a radar computer fire-control system that can lock onto and attack six separate targets with long-range Phoenix air-to-air missiles.
The escorting infidel fighters had cut their way clear through his interceptors and looped back, and space was littered with their victims.
It'll not only have a monstrous offensive arsenal, it'll bristle with defenses: forcefields, antimissiles, interceptor beam projectors.
The map showed the colored traces of dozens, hundreds of antimissiles, the long-range interceptors arcing up to meet the enemy.
Three of the interceptors launched missiles, and they succeeded in killing a pair of Backfires and damaging a third.
The differences between our elegant little interceptors and the massive Basilisks were astonishing.
Where normal TIE fighters were nicknamed eyeballs, for their spherical cockpits, in New Republic fighter slang, interceptors, with their narrower sight profiles, were called squints.
An interceptor put one hundred rounds of 40mm contraterrene shot through the hole.
That would eliminate the suicide pilot and immediately give Crespin a clear laser shot at the other two Interceptors.
In seconds she cruised up behind the trailing Interceptor and laced it full of coherent light.
I didn't know anything about his background: he could be a major element in something big the Bureau was running or he could be coming across with the blueprints of the Russian fleet, but even if he were only a contact or a courier he had to get a front-line interceptor airborne out of a military base and he had to go like hell through a gauntlet of radar stations that would trigger off signals to every air police unit along the north Mediterranean before he was across the Italian Alps.