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Definition of Projectiles
1. projectile [n] - See also: projectile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Projectiles
Literary usage of Projectiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"Oblate projectiles with ... contrasted with Cylindro-ogival projectiles having
Helical or Rifle Rotation. By RW WOOLLCOMBE. The object of this paper was ..."
2. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"(2) The minor-caliber projectiles are stamped on the base with the name of the maker
... (5) projectiles for fixed ammunition are not painted in rear of the ..."
3. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1892)
"The manufacture of forged steel projectiles, especially of common and ... Armour-
piercing projectiles are made by drawing down a cast-steel ingot by swages ..."
4. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"The compound plate let the first three through without injury to the projectiles,
but the fourth broke after perforation. The body of the first shell fired ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Muzzle-loading projectiles, however, had to be pushed into the gun from the front
and were necessarily smaller than the bore, consequently, ..."
6. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"The compound plate let, the first three through without injury to the projectiles,
but the fourth broke after perforation. ..."
7. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"OF projectiles AND GUNNERY. 355. EARLY in the 17th century, Galileo, a celebrated
Italian philosopher, established the mathematical theory of projectiles, ..."
8. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"... to guns of smaller weight and smaller calibre, the aim being to make up for
the greater smashing power of huge projectiles, thrown at a lower velocity, ..."
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