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• sur|face-to-sur|face — «SUR fihs tu SUR fihs», adjective. 1. launched from the ground or a ship at a target on the sea or on the ground. 2. between two ships or two points on the ground: »surface to surface communication …   Useful english dictionary

• sur|face-ac|tive — «SUR fihs AK tihv», adjective. of or having to do with a group of chemical substances that have the property of reducing the surface tension of water or other liquid. Certain sulfates or sulfonates made from animal and vegetable fats are surface… …   Useful english dictionary

• sur|face-ef|fect ship — «SUR fihs uh FEHKT», U.S. an air cushion vehicle for use on water …   Useful english dictionary

• sur|face-to-air — «SUR fihs tu AIR», adjective. 1. launched from the ground or a ship to intercept and destroy flying aircraft or missiles: »surface to air missiles. 2. between the ground or a ship and an aircraft: »surface to air rescue …   Useful english dictionary

• sur|face-to-un|der|wa|ter — «SUR fihs tu UHN duhr WT uhr, WOT », adjective. 1. launched from the ground or a ship at a target beneath the surface of the sea. 2. between a surface ship and a submarine, diver, or other object underwater …   Useful english dictionary

• sur|face|man — «SUR fihs muhn», noun, plural men. a person who works on the surface, as on the roadbed of a railway, or in a mining or military operation …   Useful english dictionary

• hard-sur|face — «HAHRD SUR fihs», transitive verb, faced, fac|ing. 1. to render the surface of (something) hard or smooth: »to hard surface a highway. 2. = hard face. (Cf. ↑hard face) …   Useful english dictionary

• air-to-sur|face — «AIR tu SUR fihs», adjective, adverb. passing from a flying aircraft to something on the ground or the surface of the sea: »an air to surface signal …   Useful english dictionary

• hy|per|sur|face — «HY puhr SUR fihs», noun. Mathematics. a surface in a space of more than three dimensions: »Albert Einstein…tried to abolish the endless regress of distance by bending three dimensional space around to form the hypersurface of a four dimensional… …   Useful english dictionary

• pho|to|sur|face — «FOH toh SUR fihs», noun. a photographic surface: »Every time an exposed photographic plate is removed, the air destroys the highly reactive photosurface (Scientific American) …   Useful english dictionary