Word Meanings - COMPRESSIONPROJECTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.

• MEANSPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• Harderian
  A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
• Metaleptical
  Metaleptic.
• Metallographic
  Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
• Modernism
  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
• Constructive
  Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.
• Subjectivist
  One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
• Copperplate
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
• Coppersmith
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• METALLURGICMETALLURGICAL
  Of or pertaining to metallurgy.
• Metallic
  Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
• Metallographist
  One who writes on the subject of metals.
• Modernist
  One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• Constructively
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference.
• Subjectivity
  The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

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