MIRV Definition

mûrv

mirved, mirving, mirvs

noun

An intercontinental ballistic missile with several warheads, each of which can be directed to a different target or to the same target at intervals.

Webster's New World

Any such warhead.

Webster's New World

verb

To provide with multiple independent warheads.

American Heritage

To load (a missile) with such warheads.

Webster's New World

abbreviation

(military) Multiple independently-targettable reentry vehicle - the independently targettable reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically a nuclear weapon, where the missile has multiple instances of such.

Wiktionary

Origin of MIRV

m(ultiple) i(ndependently-targeted) r(eentry) v(ehicles)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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