firing mechanism

Questions about firing mechanism

What does firing mechanism mean?

firing mechanism means "the action that ignites the charge in a firearm".

What is another word for firing mechanism?

Close synonyms include gunlock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is firing mechanism a common word?

firing mechanism 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.