gun enclosure

1. 1.

   a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

   Synonymsgun turretturret

   Broaderplatform

   Part oftank

Questions about gun enclosure

What does gun enclosure mean?

gun enclosure means "a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation".

What is another word for gun enclosure?

Close synonyms include gun turret, turret. 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 gun enclosure a common word?

gun enclosure 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.