indirect fire

1. 1.

   fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons

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Questions about indirect fire

What does indirect fire mean?

indirect fire means "fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons".

Is indirect fire a common word?

indirect fire 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.