quick-firing
- a variation of quick-fire.
Example Sentences
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One possibility, being investigated by Mourou and colleagues, is to try to combine the output of thousands of quick-firing fiber amplifiers, which don't need to be pumped with flash tubes.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 24, 2018
Australia's Tim Cahill and Uruguay's Luis Suarez have reprised their well-known routines - punching the corner-flag like a boxer, and quick-firing a pistol respectively.
From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2014
The second set was four minutes shorter as quick-firing Federer smashed four aces to call time in 54 blurred minutes.
From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2010
McNamara laid out a five-year missile program that will give the U.S. by 1968 at least 950 solid-fueled, quick-firing Minutemen, 41 Polaris submarines carrying 656 missiles, 108 Titan ICBMs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the centre was a steel turret armed with two 6-inch howitzers, enclosed in a square with four similar turrets carrying 5-inch quick-firing guns.
From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert