Word Finder - interceptors

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Anything that intercepts something else.

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A fast, maneuverable fighter aircraft designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft before they can attack.

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A guided missile designed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles.

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A device to trap, remove, or separate deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter (such as oil, grease, gasoline, sand, and sediment) from normal waste conveyed through it, permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.

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A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.

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A sewer which intercepts sewerage destined for an outfall (e.g. into a river) and redirects it to sewerage treatment plant

The Bush plan might also call for the development of sea-based interceptors, which are likely to be modified versions of the land-based interceptors.

The capabilities will include ground-based interceptors, sea-based interceptors, additional Patriot units and sensors on land, sea and space.

The Pentagon plans to develop sea-based interceptors, fit lasers to planes, and to explore the use of firing rockets from space.

But deploying such interceptors would not eliminate the desire for forward-deployed radars.

The planned burnout speed of the ground-based interceptors is reported to be 7 to 8 km/s.

A constellation of space-based kinetic interceptors could not be deployed for many years, although small numbers of prototypes could possibly be deployed earlier.

If the fighter interceptors came along up to about 1/2 HOUR LATER the UFO would have been long gone.

The Ringworld of Niven's novels is a hoop around its star, the construct of a dying race, desperate to create not only living space, but energy interceptors.