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.
- Subjectivist
One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist. - Copperplate
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. - 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. - Subjectivity
The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject. - 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.
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