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Ballistic missile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A missile that is initially guided, but then follows a ballistic (freely falling) trajectory.
  2. 2
    a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target wordnet

Etymology

From ballistic + missile.

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