fire control

American  

noun

Military.

1. technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.

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fire control British  

noun

1. military the procedures by which weapons are brought to engage a target

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Other Word Forms

• fire-control
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of fire control

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

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fire control

The increase was driven by growth in each of the company’s business segments: aeronautics, missiles and fire control, space, and rotary and mission systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Army selected Lattice as the fire-control platform for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver program, a counterdrone command-and-control layer meant to fuse sensor data, automate fire control and compress the detection-to-defeat timeline.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

"The fire control centre gave us 20 litres of fuel and lent us leaf blowers. Once the season ends, we have to return them," he told AFP, standing before a blackened, ash-strewn stretch of land.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

When an alarm goes off, the person in charge of the fire control dashboard is expected to check the location, according to the head of the Turkish Fire Protection and Education Foundation.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025

In the lulls between fire could be heard the drone of aeroplanes for a number of officers were flying to learn the principles of aerial observation in its uses for fire control.

From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Heywood Broun

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