gun pendulum

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   a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged

   Broaderballistic pendulum

Questions about gun pendulum

What does gun pendulum mean?

gun pendulum means "a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged".

Is gun pendulum a common word?

gun pendulum 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.