Definitions for air base
air base

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1. air base, air stationnoun

   a base for military aircraft

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1. air basenoun

   An airbase.

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1. Air base

   An air base (sometimes referred to as a military air base, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base) is an aerodrome used as a military base by a military force for the operation of military aircraft.

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   • Military

Anagrams for air base »

1. abaiser

2. Arabise

How to pronounce air base?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of air base in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of air base in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of air base in a Sentence

1. Bradley Bowman:

   The way that the handover of Bagram Air Base went down appears to have been very poorly coordinated and that reality and perception is not helpful to American interests. It's almost a microcosm of what we've seen more broadly, and that is poor planning.

2. Keith Salisbury:

   The process in general is a bunch of chat windows open on a computer screen — about 20 or more — and then a bunch of people start looking into systems to find out, ‘ Where is that target ? What are the surrounding facilities ? Are there schools ? Are there hospitals ? Are there civilian populations ? What munition would be appropriate ? Do we engage or not ? By using technology developed by private companies, The Air Force says it saved time and manpower, and even saved nearly a million dollars of fuel per week. ( REUTERS) As part of a Defense Innovation Advisory Board, leaders from technology companies like Pivotal Software went to the Combined Air Operations Center( CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to see how they could help. What they encountered was startling. They saw lots of whiteboards.

3. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   I saw some of the A-10s that are flying bombing missions against ISIL (the Pentagon's term for ISIS) when I was at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey last December, and we need the additional payload capacity they can bring to the fight, we're pushing off the A-10's final retirement until 2022 so we can keep more aircraft that can drop smart bombs on ISIL.

4. Andrew Peek:

   The Kurds have shown themselves more able than we were expecting to conduct offense. We’ve always known the Kurds could defend Kurdish territory particularly well, but the capture of [the air base] is a positive sign that they can move forward.

5. Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei:

   Placing an air base will not reduce military and political tensions in the region. Conversely, the air base will lead to irritation toward both Minsk and Moscow, we think there is no need to have a discussion on placing a base in Belarus.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=air base
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Air_Base
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Base