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Guided missile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "Lawrence was a rocket man, working on guided missiles."

  2. 2
    a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices wordnet

Etymology

From guided + missile.

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