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US
/ˈmɪnətˌmæn/
]
[ UK /mˈɪnɪtmən/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪnɪtmən/ ]
NOUN
- a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
- an American militiaman prior to and during the American Revolution
How To Use Minuteman In A Sentence
- If people don't stand up to these 'minuteman', or as we in San Diego like to call them, MInutemen ... The Austin Daily Herald
- Texas Instruments were already involved in secret military work - Kilby worked on the first Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile.
- As timely as a minuteman showing up to Concord at the Old North Bridge. I have books!
- Or to put the point more piquantly, one person's minuteman is another person's mujahideen. Balkinization
- The "minuteman" reference clearly has a militaristic ring, and it reflects Glenn Beck's casting of himself as a modern-day version of Thomas Paine. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
- It's a real treat for us today to be both in a launch control facility earlier this day and now about as up close and personal with a Minuteman III missile as I possibly can be.
- The University of Massachusetts elects to keep its Minuteman mascot despite citing ‘gender, firearms and ethnicity issues’ as reasons to abandon it.
- I will also be talking with two outspoken critics of the Minuteman Project who say the minutemen are simply vigilantes.
- It is a four stage missile like the Minuteman III, with the first three stages being solid propellant and the fourth stage by hypergolicly fueled with hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
- The US DoD also has experience with large multistage rockets with solid motor first stages: Minuteman, Peacekeeper, Trident etc. Ground Test for Ares I-X Start This Week - NASA Watch
