ballistic missile

English

Etymology

From ballistic +‎ missile.

Noun

ballistic missile (plural ballistic missiles)

1. (military, astronautics) A missile that is initially guided, but then follows a ballistic (freely falling) trajectory.

Synonyms

• BM

Hyponyms

• intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
• intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)
• long range ballistic missile (LRBM)
• medium range ballistic missile (MRBM)
• submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
• short range ballistic missile (SRBM)

Derived terms

• anti-ballistic missile (ABM)

Translations

missile

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: صَارُوخ بَالِسْتِيّ m (ṣārūḵ bālistiyy)
• Armenian: բալիստիկ հրթիռ (hy) (balistik hrtʻiṙ)
• Belarusian: балісты́чная раке́та f (balistýčnaja rakjéta)
• Bulgarian: балисти́чна раке́та f (balistíčna rakéta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彈道導彈 / 弹道导弹 (zh) (dàndào dǎodàn), 彈道飛彈 / 弹道飞弹 (dàndào fēidàn) (Taiwan, HK)

• Czech: balistická raketa f
• Danish: ballistisk missil n
• Dutch: ballistische raket m or f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: ballistiline rakett
• Finnish: ballistinen ohjus (fi)
• French: missile balistique (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ballistische Rakete f
• Hungarian: ballisztikus rakéta
• Irish: diúracán balaistíochta m, diúracán balaistíoch m
• Italian: missile balistico m
• Japanese: 弾道ミサイル (ja) (だんどう みさいる, dandō misairu)
• Latvian: ballistiskā raķete f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: балистичка ракета f (balistička raketa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: баллистик пуужин (ballistik puužin), харвалзүйн залуурт сум (xarvalzüjn zaluurt sum) (China)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballistisk missil n

• Polish: pocisk balistyczny m, rakieta balistyczna f
• Portuguese: míssil balístico m
• Romanian: rachetă balistică f
• Russian: баллисти́ческая раке́та (ru) f (ballistíčeskaja rakéta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: балистичка ракета f

  Roman: balistička raketa f

• Slovak: balistická raketa f
• Slovene: balistični izstrelek m
• Spanish: misil balístico m
• Swedish: ballistisk robot
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: балісти́чна раке́та (uk) f (balistýčna rakéta)
• Vietnamese: tên lửa đạn đạo

See also

• guided missile
• cruise missile