air-to-air

air-to-air

(âr′tə-âr′)adj.1. a. Launched from an aircraft with an aircraft as a target: air-to-air missiles.b. Occurring between or involving airborne aircraft: air-to-air communication.2. Of or relating to the transfer of heat between two bodies of air.

air-to-air

adj (Aeronautics) operating between aircraft in flight

air′-to-air′

adj. 1. operating between airborne objects, esp. aircraft: air-to-air missiles. adv. 2. from one aircraft, missile, or the like to another while in flight: They refueled air-to-air. [1940–45]

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air-to-air - operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight; "air-to-air missiles"; "air-to-air communications"air-to-ground, air-to-surface - operating from or designed to be fired from aircraft at targets on the ground; "air-to-surface missiles"surface-to-air - operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target; "surface-to-air missiles"

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