From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishballistic missilebalˌlistic ˈmissile noun [countable] PMWa powerful weapon that can travel extremely long distances, and that flies very high up into the sky and then back down to earth, where it explodes
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ballistic missile• He realized that the Soviets were just as capable of adapting a ballistic missile to carry satellites as he was. 