fire control

1. 1.

   preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target

   Broaderpreparation

   Part ofshooting

Questions about fire control

What does fire control mean?

fire control means "preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target".

Is fire control a common word?

fire control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.