missilenoun/ˈmɪs.aɪl/

• 1

  Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.

  • The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
  • And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
• 2

  governmentmilitarypoliticsA self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.

  • That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.