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

Almost £30m of taxpayers' money has been spent on maintaining an empty fire control centre, which was never used.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

He flicked the firing button, to tell the fire control system that this was the target.

From Pushbutton War by John Schoenherr

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