intercontinental
adjective
in·ter·con·ti·nen·tal
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Definition of intercontinental
1
: extending among continents or carried on between continents
2
: capable of traveling between continents
intercontinental ballistic missile
Examples of intercontinental in a Sentence
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Washington believes Tehran’s space program is merely a cover for its attempts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile to launch a nuclear warhead. — Megan Specia, New York Times, "Iran Acknowledges Space Center Blast, Days After Trump Shares Revealing Image," 2 Sep. 2019 Washington believes Tehran’s space program is merely a cover for its attempts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile to launch a nuclear warhead. — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, "Iran acknowledges launch blast, days after Trump shares revealing image," 2 Sep. 2019 The radar and listening post features a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System that can detect incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles and reaches thousands of miles into Russian territory. — Michelle Toh, CNN, "Here's what it could cost for America to buy Greenland," 16 Aug. 2019 The bet by Northrop is that the US military, through its national security launch contract, would want to support one of the nation's most critical suppliers of solid-rocket motors for intercontinental ballistic missiles. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Four rocket companies are competing for Air Force funding, and it is war," 12 Aug. 2019 The films kept up with the advance of bomb technology, from the conventional finned bombs in Thunderball to the Polaris intercontinental ballistic missiles in The Spy Who Loved Me. — André Millard, Smithsonian, "In Battles of Man Versus Machine, James Bond Always Wins," 12 July 2019 Clear Air Force Station tracks incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles and is home to about 150 active-duty and Air National Guard personnel, according to media reports. — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, "Fast-moving wildfire forces evacuations of two Denali Borough subdivisions," 12 July 2019 Intermediate-range weapons reach their targets quicker than intercontinental ballistic missiles raising the likelihood of a global nuclear conflict over a false launch warning. — Fox News, "Putin signs bill withdrawing from nuclear arms treaty with the United States," 4 July 2019 The bombers had to move fast to escape being caught on the ground by enemy bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Watch a B-52’s Engines Literally Explode Into Action With a “Cart Start”," 19 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'intercontinental.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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intercontinental
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of intercontinental
: traveling or occurring between continents
: capable of traveling from one continent to another
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