: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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China is expected to have a third aircraft carrier operational with the navy this year.—Ellie Cook
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 The missile likely performs near-vertical terminal attacks on surface targets such as aircraft carriers, combining sheer kinetic energy with high penetration potential.—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025 For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 This World War II-era aircraft carrier was active in the Pacific Theater throughout the 1940s, later spending years as a training carrier before being decommissioned in 1991.—Jared Ranahan, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
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