Definition of aircraft carrier
: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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Beijing has been upping pressure on the island by cutting its already tenuous diplomatic links and has sent military planes and an aircraft carrier close to the island multiple times.
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Koh said China's string of militarized islands -- equipped with airfields and radar facilities -- have become like a series of immovable aircraft carriers.
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Super Hornets can launch off of aircraft carriers, which makes them an excellent choice for supporting a U.S. naval offensive.
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Nick Coleman of the Kentucky Air National Guard flies his T-Craft World War II aircraft carriers.
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In 1952, the destroyer-minesweeper USS Hobson sank in the central Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp with the loss of 176 crew members.
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He was assigned to fly torpedo bombers off aircraft carriers in the Pacific theater.
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But Fleischer also said the backstory to the 2003 incident has been largely forgotten: The aircraft carrier was concluding its deployment, and the banner was meant to refer only to the carrier group — not the overall mission.
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There were nearly 1,200 by the end of World War II, along with 27 aircraft carriers.
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First Known Use of aircraft carrier
1917
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Definition of aircraft carrier for English Language Learners
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: a military ship that has a large deck where aircraft take off and land
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