Usually means: Multiple warheads for one missile.
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  1. MIRV: Merriam-Webster
  2. MIRV: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. MIRV: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. MIRV: Collins English Dictionary
  5. MIRV, mirv: Wiktionary
  6. MIRV: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. MIRV: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. MIRV, m.i.r.v: Dictionary.com
  9. M.I.R.V, MIRV: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. MIRV: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  11. MIRV: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. MIRV: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MIRV: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MIRV: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MIRV: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (MIRV)

verb:  (transitive, military, slang) To attack with MIRV missiles.
noun:  (military) Initialism of multiple independently-targettable reentry vehicle; the independently targettable reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically a nuclear weapon, where the missile has multiple instances of such.

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