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Noun: air defense
Usage: US (elsewhere: air defence)
  1. Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft, missiles or to nullify their effectiveness
    - air defence [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: air defenses

Type of: defence [Brit, Cdn], defense [US], defensive measure

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