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interˈceptor
[a. L. interceptor, agent-n. f. intercipĕre to intercept.]
a. One who or that which intercepts.
1598Florio, Intercettore, a preuenter, a forestaller, an encrocher, an interceptor [1611 intercepter]. 1790A. M. Johnson Monmouth III. 116 She..followed her furious interceptor to the house. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 50/1 Sewer Gas Interceptors..Grease Interceptors. Mud Interceptors. 1894H. D. Lloyd Wealth agst. Commw. 375 People had been digging oil wells for 20 years that all the value might flow into the bank accounts of a few interceptors.
b. Aeronaut. A fast aircraft which is designed specifically for the interception of hostile aircraft. Also attrib., as interceptor fighter, interceptor 'plane.
1930Flight 27 June 691/2 For a normal fighter, tanks to carry fuel for a flight of..2½ hours are sufficient. The new class of ‘interceptor fighters’ require even less endurance than that. 1934Times 26 June Air Suppl. p. xvi/1 The modern interceptor was evoked by the fast day bomber. 1935Economist 12 Oct. 708/1 There is no direct defence against air attack—‘the bomber will always get through’—there never can be an adequate force of interceptor 'planes. 1948‘N. Shute’ No Highway xii. 294 One of the jet interceptor fighters coming into squadron use. 1966Electronics 17 Oct. 104 The considerations will be presented in terms of a typical modern interceptor system. 1973Times 14 May 12/6 The Warsaw Pact is also superior in light bombers, interceptors, and ground attack aircraft. |