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Sentence Examples This is to guarantee that if the handgun does discharge, the projectile will go directly into the bullet stopper. Internal ballistics modeled the forces inside of a gun barrel while external ballistics modeled the flight of a projectile. At that instant, the total effects of interior ballistics in terms of developed muzzle velocity and spin have been imparted to the projectile. There were men all over the place, carrying every kind of rocket launcher, grenade launcher, bazooka, or projectile weapon they had. She took them to several different stands, all selling guns, crossbows, and other kinds of projectile weapons. The trajectory is the path traced by the center of gravity of the projectile from the origin to the level point. At this time ideas of the trajectory taken by a projectile were still dominated by Aristotle's thinking. The program will also include a laser ignition system, electric drives for the howitzer's traverse and elevation and a powered projectile rammer. Basically, it was a giant seesaw with a heavy weight at one end and a sling with a projectile at the other. Weapons will primarily consist of pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and projectile launchers. Minor variations in the weight of the projectile, form of the rotating band, and moisture content and temperature of the propellant grains. A happy advantage of the.36 is that 000 buckshot makes a fine projectile and may be bought cheaply in 500 count boxes. That way the hard barrel compresses the relatively soft metal of the bullet as the exploding gunpowder hurls the projectile down the barrel. The rifled portion of the tube imparts spin to the projectile increasing stability in flight. For instance, when hafted, much of the morphological variation of projectile points is obscured, while the lithic raw material remains visible. Such a clean penetration could have been caused only by a high speed projectile, such as rifle bullet. The trigger detonates a pre-loaded percussion cap which both blasts the projectile out the front of the launcher and ignites the rocket. Despite being hit by an inflated projectile, he is intent on risking more close encounters in the same way. The tube belched fire and the projectile covered the short distance to the tank in an instant. If the projectile is fired parallel to the ground, this effect causes the typical downward curved trajectory. Show More Sentences For the highest pressures, brute force is applied in the form of the shock-wave apparatus, in which a projectile is fired at the sample. When this projectile is fired into trash piles, trucks, or boxes, it sticks to the target and sends back data. The rich material culture includes flint and bone projectile points, fishing equipment, and decorated bone and stone. The projectile points were of a type never seen before and became known to archaeologists as Folsom points. A new load includes frangible buckshot made by Remington's Disintegrator process that uses copper-plated powdered iron for the projectile. The fuze initiates an explosive train in the projectile causing the projectile to produce the desired effects. I pour out a box of black projectile powder, much to the alarm of the two onlookers, and fill it up with my treasures. The US military acknowledged that the helicopter was likely brought down by small-arms fire or a projectile fired from the ground. His projectile weapon was hardly in a class to combat Graham's, but he had to make do. He pressed a series of controls and fired his only projectile weapon, a positron grenade, directly behind him. Blaine couldn't help but notice that they were armed with projectile weapons. On the wall with the door leaned targets for various projectile weapons, namely bows and arrows. In most multiplayer games, everything is just some variation on a projectile weapon. In desperation, you attempt to use the useless tome as an impromptu projectile weapon. The weapon he used appeared to be a particle blaster instead of a projectile weapon. The projectile weapons are more traditional cannons, and there is a continuum of muzzle velocities with different effective ranges. Pepper spray and projectile weapons seem to be par for the course by this time in our city. I'm guessing they don't have any projectile weapons or anything similar since they resort to using claws in most cases. When fighting these types it is best to use projectile weapons because seeing as you can't see them, close combat is risky. A light saber is a definite must-have for Kyle, but a couple of projectile weapons should be included. Show More Sentences Rocket-propelled grenades are a commonly used explosive projectile weapon, used by many armies across the world. After they refused to serve her any more alcohol, they took her in for testing, where she proceeded to projectile vomit all over the room. He appeared to projectile vomit directly down into the turf next to the penalty spot. If scenes showing projectile dog vomit and real estate transactions are honestly more interesting than the subject at hand, I can't see why. How does someone manage to projectile vomit all over the footpath out front of McDonalds anyway? The rapidly expanding gases from the burning propellant force the projectile through the cannon tube. To fire the weapon a projectile containing the propellant and explosive is dropped into the muzzle. The rapid expansion of gases caused by the burning propellant propels the projectile from the tube toward the target. The smoke screen is produced when a predetermined fuze action causes ejection of the payload from the projectile. Next, an abrasive water jet cuts the metal projectile body in two places to enable removal of the aluminum explosive casing. The weapon is accurate at long distances and the projectile moves pretty fast. No mink stole or raccoon wrap is safe from a pulpy projectile that's gone to seed. Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails. The discharge of the air gun was virtually silent and propelled a projectile that would prove lethal to both man and animal up to 100 yards. The Vulcan works by firing a projectile at high speed into a landmine, ripping it apart without detonating the explosives. The projectile launcher fired bomblets that would stun anyone within twenty or thirty meters of the point of impact. More subtle effects of air resistance on projectile motion are related to the shape and rotation of the object. Harriot resolved the forces acting on the projectile into horizontal and vertical components. The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy. During flight, the base of the projectile is blown off and centrifugal force disperses the grenades radially from the projectile line of flight. Show More Sentences Small flakes of rock crystal as well as axes, bone projectile points, and burials are known. Though not a long-range projectile, they are devastating when used at practical distances. Close-range striking or longer-range missile or projectile weapons provide tactical hitting or firepower. She shot an ice-charged projectile down at the scimitars, but the whirling cutters diced it to ribbons in the blink of an eye. Mortars are ballistic weapons that have projectile trajectories undistorted by rocket engine or guidance system. The Greener gun allowed a much heavier projectile than a shoulder gun. Once sensors detect a target, preferably a tank or armored personnel cartier, the submunition fires an explosive projectile into the top of the target. The nature of small systems is such that they are more difficult to hit with conventional projectile weapons due to their small size and large numbers. But the projectile went very deep, so it may have chipped the bone a bit. Designed to be highly effective while reducing the danger from over-penetration or ricochet, the projectile is designed to totally fragment into fine particles upon impact. The army even employed a recoilless rifle designed to fire the same size of projectile as light fieldpieces to engage tanks, enemy bunkers, and lightly armored vehicles. It comes equipped with a thermoelectric projectile acceleration system. Under the bill, a person who knowingly discharges a firearm that sends a projectile across a property line could be charged with a Class C misdemeanor criminal violation. The first shock wave is created as the air in the barrel is compressed by the front of the projectile as it travels hypersonically down the barrel. The projectile hit, and covered the target in a sticky white goo. As the projectile leaves the muzzle the high velocity gases following the projectile strike the baffles of the muzzle brake and are deflected toward the rear and sides. The antler tines may have been used as pressure flakers on stone projectile points and knives, although there was no evidence of microdebitage imbedded in the damaged tips. Stone tools tend to be polished slate rather than chipped stone, and include lanceolate knives, projectile heads, and the ulu transverse-bladed knife. A projectile is an object that has been launched, shot, hurled, thrown or by other means projected and which continues in motion due to its own inertia. By the 14th century counterweighted trebuchets with slings to multiply the force with which the projectile was hurled had reached a high degree of sophistication. Show More Sentences With advances in technology, the emphasis has shifted from the former to the latter with steady increases in the range of missile and projectile weapons. I do not depend on projectile weapons and electrical charges. In an air rifle the projectile is supposedly driven down the rifling of the barrel by a source of gas other than that provided by a fast burning mixture. This is an impact crater caused by a large, falling projectile. By 1916 he had devised a method to calculate the position from which the projectile was fired very accurately allowing enemy gun locations to be targeted. Also, it is extremely important to ensure the rotating band is secure on the projectile and that there are no cuts, dents, or excessive rust on the band. The newcomer's sleek cow pat easily out-distanced the reigning champion's bulky projectile. They were also skilled manufacturers of a range of other types of stone tools and ornaments, including projectile points, beads, and statuettes. Stone tools, particularly projectile points and scrapers, are the primary evidence of the earliest human activity in the Americas. Bones can serve a number of uses such as projectile points or artistic pigments, and can also be made from external bones such as antlers. Prismatic blades were used for cutting and scraping, and have been reshaped into other tool types, such as projectile points and awls. The arquebus did not rely on the physical strength of the user for propulsion of the projectile, making it easier to find a suitable recruit. First, the wind speed closest to the midpoint of range has the greatest effect on the projectile. It wasn't until the mid-19th century and the development of the Minie projectile that riflery became a universal realization. The Lorentz Force propels the armature forward on which an object or projectile can be mounted, similar to a Sabot, and subsequently propelled. Indulge to excess and both cause extreme nausea and custard-coloured projectile vomiting. Jane had projectile vomiting so severe it was like something out of The Exorcist. All guns at that time were smoothbores, so not a lot of thought was paid to whether they shot a single projectile or many projectiles. The Belles struggle with romance, fist fights, arrests, and repeated projectile vomiting. Metal Storm had already developed non-metallic, non-flammable projectile casings required for such fire fighting applications said Mr Vehlow. Show More Sentences Both obsidian projectile points and coprolites were excavated from sediments in the Paisley Caves. Colwyn Bay and Tywyn community hospitals have also been hit by the highly contagious virus which causes nausea, projectile vomiting and diarrhoea. The caseless cartridge featured a bullet projectile, primer and booster charge within a propellent body that was secured as a unit by a plastic cap. Galilei further asserted that the parabola was the theoretically ideal trajectory of a uniformly accelerated projectile in the absence of friction and other disturbances. Minutes later, an explosively formed projectile penetrated the front passenger window of the lead Humvee, instantly killing the team chief and driver. High pressure directly ahead of and beside the projectile nose comminute and fracture the sand media, forming a rigid, conical false nose on the front of the projectile. They were using a specially designed pistol made for starting backfires when a piece of the projectile fragmented and ricocheted unexpectedly over a 100-foot berm. The amentum gives not only range, but also spin to the projectile. Each of these is commonly thought to derive directly from Clovis, in some cases apparently differing only in the length of the fluting on their projectile points. Evidence for hunting is, however, tentative, consisting primarily of a horse shoulderblade with a semicircular hole that has been interpreted as a projectile impact mark. The RPM is based on TDA's well-established 68 mm SNEB rocket projectile. Today, the mechanics of why a spinning projectile flies straighter and longer than one fired from a smoothbore is well known, but such was not the case with our forebears. Pottery, stone projectile points, and possible houses were also found. Examples from Classical Literature If it were, it would be unusual for Baja California, where projectile shafts are usually of cane. There is a cannelure, that would be the position at which the projectile is crimped and held in the cartridge case. It was the sudden release of both the keel and deadweight of the projectile that had caused R19 to shoot up to the surface. In the motion of a projectile under gravity the hodograph is a vertical line described with constant velocity. This assumption is further backed by stratigraphic evidence provided by projectile points. A Russian torpedo boat in shelter behind the navarin, now seeing its chance, darted out and launched its projectile. One projectile smashed against the side of oke Tor, and sent back the ringing sound of its tremendous impact. As a matter of fact the path of a projectile in vacuo is only approximately a parabola. Yes, he had told me it was all accomplished by polarizing the steel and iron of the projectile! The gyros on each projectile had been preset for a circular flight of fifteen minutes' duration. There was a force back of what he said like the force back of the projectile. Yet the only basic difference is the kind of energy that sends the projectile on its way. In the second shot the projectile was the same, but the charge was greater. And what are we to say of the projectile impulse in the case of the planets? For many years there has been a need in the Southeast for a workable system of projectile point classification. This is usually the longest flute occurring during multiple fluting of a projectile point. The weight of the projectile is 88 pounds, and its remanent velocity at the moment of impact is 1,295 feet. This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles. Had the ingenuity of the constructors of the projectile obtained any happy result? The object grew rapidly as it approached them, and by an optical illusion the projectile seemed to be throwing itself before it. Show More Sentences Their overexcited imagination went faster than the projectile, whose speed was evidently diminishing, though insensibly to themselves. Kapp's own projectile, meanwhile, had passed at ten good inches from the person of Valentin. Suddenly the projectile passed the line of demarcation between intense light and absolute darkness, and was plunged in profound night! Any sporting projectile sent into it might be counted most literally as a lost ball. Cruncher was out of spirits, and out of temper, and kept an iron pot-lid by him as a projectile for the correction of Mrs. Jarvey said the spent projectile shot through the bag and went about 15 feet into the air before falling to the floor, where it was recovered. The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had presently expended their forces. Our 'Scopes on the Cometara had not been able to locate the projectile. During the last twelve hours the atmosphere of the projectile had become charged with this deleterious gas. But tone down the charge in your rifle and use a smaller projectile, or you'll have nothing but a bunch of feathers to show for your shot. Of course, projectile vomiting and reflux are quite common in full-term singletons as well. And regaining his entresol he overwhelmed the coachman with every projectile he could lay hands on. The three travelers approached the orifice of the enormous cast-iron tube, and a crane let them down to the conical top of the projectile. But, almost immediately recovering herself, she launched a last projectile at her adversary. But the projectile must describe a curve unalterably determined by the laws of mechanical reasoning. If the projectile is to command the gunner, we had better ram the gunner into the gun. The two dogs, destined to propagate the canine race on the lunar continents, were already shut up in the projectile. Then he picked up another and followed through with a second projectile. The projectile Company has multiplied its 1913 profit thirteen times over! The great weight of its projectile gave the double cannon its name. Show More Sentences She advanced with great speed, and seemed to describe an orbit round the earth, which would intersect the passage of the projectile. And the projectile, Mr Barlow, are you prepared to undertake that also? The projectile is shaped like a rolling pin, though it is much larger. As I did so a second report followed, and a big projectile hurtled overhead towards Hounslow. What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse, of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures? The projectile, immerged in the conical shadow of the satellite, experienced the action of the solar rays no more than any of its invisible points. The projectile grazed the flier's side, the opaque coating breaking sufficiently to permit daylight to strike in upon the powder phial within the bullet's nose. The sinister truth remained that, whether hyperbolically or parabolically borne away, the projectile would never again meet either the earth or the moon. Another electric projectile through the head of the jaguar produced no further effect than to move the body slightly, and this proved conclusively that there was no life left. It was a reddish incandescence which increased by degrees, a decided proof that the projectile was shifting toward it and not falling normally on the surface of the moon. The wonderful projectile was not even heated under the intense deflagration of the powder, nor liquefied, as they seemed to fear, in a shower of aluminum. Substitute for your spherical shell a cylindro-conical projectile. From a firing point located in Barbados, the HARP could send a projectile, called a Martlet, to an altitude of 180 kilometers, a record that stands today. To satisfy his companions, Barbicane began to uncover the window at the bottom of the projectile, which would allow them to observe the earth direct. On the completion of the Columbiad the public interest centered in the projectile itself, the vehicle which was destined to carry the three hardy adventurers into space. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of projectile? Words that rhyme with projectile What is the plural of projectile? What is the adverb for projectile? What is the adjective for projectile? What is the noun for projectile? Translations for projectile Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words projected projectable project pro-israel proinsulin proinflammatory projectile motion projectiles projectile vomiting projecting projection projectionist 10-letter Words Starting With p pr pro proj proje projec project projecti projectil