"ICBM" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ICBMs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ICBM (plural ICBMs)
  1. (weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile. Wikipedia link: ICBM Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: intercontinental ballistic missile Categories (topical): Cold War, Explosives, Nuclear warfare, Rocketry, Weapons Synonyms: IBM Coordinate_terms: ABM, SLBM, LRBM, IRBM, MRBM, SRBM Translations (abbreviation of intercontinental ballistic missile): МКБР (MKBR) (Bulgarian), ICBM (Catalan), MIRV (Catalan), ICBM (Chinese Mandarin), SLBM (Dutch), MBIC (Italian), ICBM (english: ICBM) (Japanese), SKBR (Latvian), ICBM (Spanish)

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