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Iron Dome

[ ahy-ern dohm ]

noun

  1. an Israeli air defense system that uses radar to detect incoming rockets, calculates whether they will hit Israeli towns, and launches missiles to shoot them down.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Iron Dome1

First recorded in 2010–15

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Example Sentences

Nevertheless, should Iron Dome funding come up for a vote this week, it is expected to receive overwhelming support.

Without an Iron Dome defense system, air raid sirens or even bomb shelters, people resign themselves to their fate.

The Iron Dome, increasingly, ensures that those rockets never land.

The reports of Iron Dome intercepts also made me feel better.

Iron Dome anti-rocket batteries have been deployed in the northern regions of Safed, Amakim, and Haifa.

These pots are set upon three furnaces bound with iron hoops, and they are covered with a kind of iron dome.

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