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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A winged, nonballistic guided missile designed to fly at low altitude along a preprogrammed course to its target.
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- noun A
winged missile , designed for aguided flight at lowaltitudes , as opposed to aballistic missile .
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- noun an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb
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