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GUN PENDULUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gun pendulum" is a kind of...):
ballistic pendulum (a physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod; when it is struck by a projectile its displacement is used to measure the projectile's velocity)
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