Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation antiballistic missile
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- initialism military Anti-Ballistic Missile.
- initialism banking Automated Bank Machine.
- initialism management Activity-based management.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
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Examples
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What I want to do very quickly here, in less than 15 minutes, is just address what I would regard as the five principal misconceptions concerning this question of drawing a line in the treaty between permitted ABMs that are not banned, but restricted on the one hand, and theater missile defenses on the other that are outside the treaty -- what we call ABM-TMD demarcation.
Briefing By Robert Bell On Helsinki Agreements ITY National Archives 1997
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What possible answer to building military space station – that would be able to contain ABM system being developed by the US now.
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In America, and in Europe, too, ABM is rapidly establishing itself as the compromise of choice.
The Marrying Kind 2002
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In America, and in Europe, too, ABM is rapidly establishing itself as the compromise of choice.
The Marrying Kind 2002
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POSHnet is one of Canada's largest white label ABM and POS payments switches and processing centres, which provides service to more than 35,000 white label ABM and debit/credit and value-added payment terminals in merchant locations across Canada.
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Paul Fussell one christened this sort of thing the "ABM" - Author's Big Mistake.
Planet Atheism 2009
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That afternoon members of a rival gang called "ABM" from the nearby Howard Houses were hanging out at a convenience store on the corner of Pitkin and Watkins Street.
Arrests in Brooklyn Shooting Sean Gardiner 2011
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Lots of people around the island are operating in what one academic termed ABM anyone but Ma mode.
Penning in Ma Michael Turton 2007
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QUESTION: President Putin just said that pulling out of the ABM was a mistake, once again reiterating that the treaty is a cornerstone of world security.
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And hence we then signed a very important document called the ABM -- Anti-Ballistic Missile -- Treaty, signed in 1972.
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