azon
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 4
Definition of azon
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A gliding bomb of World War II whose azimuth could be adjusted via radio.
“Three hundred Azon tail units arrived in the theater of operations early in July 1944; following a crash course in Azon, a technical team followed the fins overseas in August.”
“2012, Spencer Tucker, Almanac of American Military History, Volume 3: 1914-1949, page 1636, The Azon (for Azimuth Only) was developed by the Allies contemporaneously with the German Fritz X. […] Azons were subsequently employed with some success against bridges on the Japanese-operated Burma Railway; 493 Azons destroyed 27 bridges, including the famous Kwai River bridge.”
“In the autumn of 1944 ten B-24s equipped for Azon bombing and ten trained crews joined the 7th BG.”
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Etymology
From az(imuth) on(ly).
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