ALCM

British  

abbreviation

1. air-launched cruise missile: a type of cruise missile that can be launched from an aircraft

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Example Sentences

From Athens there came Megacles, son of Alcm�on, the same who had visited Crœsus, and another, Hippoclides, son of Tisander, who surpassed the Athenians in wealth and beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

A few days later, she gave a masterly rendering of the r�le of Monime in Racine's Mithridate, which will be remembered as one of Mlle. de Champmesl�'s most brilliant creations, speedily followed by other triumphs as B�r�nice, Iren� in Andronic, Alcm�ne in Amphitryon, and Pauline in Polyeucte; and, on June 20, a vacancy having in the meanwhile arisen, she was received into the company and allotted a demi-part.

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She gave, however, a very pleasing interpretation of Alcm�ne in Amphitryon, and Hortense in Le Florentin, in which character she made her last appearance on the stage, and, as Ang�lique, had a large share in the success of Piron's Fils ingrats; while to her acting in the part of the heroine, Voltaire was much indebted for the favourable reception accorded to his little comedy l'Indiscret.

From Project Gutenberg

Everybody had heard that Alcm�on had purchased her freedom a short time before his death, paying Eunomus half her weight in gold, and that he had made comfortable provision for her when his last illness seized him and he knew that he must die.

From Project Gutenberg

Technological advances in recent years have given their successors, the Navy's Tomahawk and the Air Force's ALCM, a powerful, strategic wallop.

From Time Magazine Archive