muzzle velocity

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noun Ordnance.

the speed of a projectile, usually expressed in feet or meters per second, as it leaves the muzzle of a gun.

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Origin of muzzle velocity

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby muzzle velocity

Muztagata, muzz, muzzle, muzzleloader, muzzler, muzzle velocity, muzzy, Mv, MVA, MVD, MVDI

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Phone lines would catch fire from the velocity and ferocity of his words.
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He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.
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It was a hippopotamus which had been standing on the river-brink within six yards of the muzzle of his gun.
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Such was its velocity that in some parts of the journey the speed was frequently 12 miles an hour.
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The cock springs out of its seat when water gets into the cylinder, and prevents any mischief from the velocity of the fly-wheel.
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The gunner's seat moved with the carriage, from which he could elevate or depress the muzzle by a lever.
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British Dictionary definitions for muzzle velocity

muzzle velocity

noun

the velocity of a projectile as it leaves a firearm's muzzle

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