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surface-to-surface
[ sur-fis-tuh-sur-fis ]
/ ˈsɜr fɪs təˈsɜr fɪs /
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adjective
(of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from a base on the surface of the earth to a target also on the surface.
adverb
from a base on the surface of the earth to a target on the surface.
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surface road,
surface structure,
surface tension,
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surface wave,
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How to use surface-to-surface in a sentence
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
The more resources and education society becomes equipped with, the fewer stories like yours will surface.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
British Dictionary definitions for surface-to-surface
adjective
of or relating to a missile launched from the surface of the earth against surface targets
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