A projectile force. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The biggest change you're going to see is the way in which we launch a projectile from a barrel. From Wordnik.com. [The 50 Best Guns of All Time] Reference
Very often, I won't even care what shape my projectile is (I'll just assume it to be a point-mass). From Wordnik.com. [2007 January - Telic Thoughts] Reference
Now, enlightened to what the utility of that extra powder is for, I use a 200 grain projectile, and drive it just 300 fps slower. From Wordnik.com. [Two Cases Where Bigger Isn't Better] Reference
Attached to the projectile is a thin and strong line. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
In the second shot the projectile was the same, but the charge was greater. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
The question of heating the projectile is the most difficult one I have found. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
However, one expedient tool I can make for throwing a projectile is the atl-atl. From Wordnik.com. [SurvivalBlog.com] Reference
He had not known that the flight of a projectile was a phenomenon of so appalling character. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians] Reference
Well, the projectile is the vehicle of the future, and the planets themselves are nothing else!. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
Tokyo, Washington and other countries in the region believe the projectile is a long-range missile. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
The record setting cannon for altitude of a projectile was the High-Altitude Research Project HARP cannon. From Wordnik.com. [Hydrogen Gas Cannons Could Launch Payloads to Orbit (w/video) | Universe Today] Reference
"It's spectacular… It takes people's breath away," said Ellsworth, calling the projectile, "a big missile". From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
It was all so slow and quiet that I was suddenly possessed with a fear that after all the projectile was a failure. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
I took a few precautions last night, moving indoors anything that might turn into a projectile from the back yard, but that’s it. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from a Tropical Storm : Bev Vincent] Reference
He did suffer at least one injury from a projectile, which is believed to have come from a high-velocity weapon, most probably a rifle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006] Reference
DUDECK: July 2007, an explosively performed projectile, which is a pretty vicious type of an IED, came through the back of that stryker. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2009] Reference
For producing destructive effect among troops, a third kind of projectile is employed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
The Parrott guns have been arranged for the use of a certain kind of projectile, supplied by the inventor. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
DUDEK: July 2007 and an explosive form projectile which is a pretty vicious type of an IED came through the back of the Stryker. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009] Reference
DUDEK: July 2007 and an explosive form projectile which is a pretty vicious type of an IED came through the back of the striker. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009] Reference
"They must have thought the projectile was another chunk fallen from. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
More things can happen of course, depending on what kind of projectile you're firing. From Wordnik.com. [DonationCoder.com Forum] Reference
Off jumped the driver and stoker, and the new kind of projectile sped away into the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege] Reference
Shrapnel, being the man-killing projectile which is used against troops in the open, is primarily used in defence. From Wordnik.com. [1914] Reference
The projectile which is used consists of a barbed harpoon, to which a short chain is affixed, and to that a strong line. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
| SHELLS NOT | | | N.B. -- Each kind of projectile, distance. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
Any situation that involves the words "projectile" or "diarrhea" should garner an AttaGirl. From Wordnik.com. [Murphy's Law Yet Again - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
ROB CORDDRY projectile vomits all over the HOT TUB. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Tub Time Machine: the 80s regurgitated] Reference
"" First, I am very good at projectile vomiting, '' he said. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart Of The Sky] Reference
If I were that projectile, I would maintain that illusion as long as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Married Women] Reference
He then put his fingers down his throat and "projectile vomited," Vangelo said. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Clemmens, Phillies 'Vomit Fan,' Gets Jail Sentence] Reference
JOYCE: Shea hands me what might have been the first shoulder-fired human projectile. From Wordnik.com. [Armed And Deadly: Shoulder, Weapons Key To Hunt] Reference
Tents strained against their poles, and any loose object fired away like a projectile. From Wordnik.com. [The Sand And The Fury] Reference
Then there's the split-pea-soup scene, which degenerates into a projectile-vomiting contest. From Wordnik.com. [Scared Silly] Reference
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