precision rifle

1. 1.

   an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away

   Synonymssniper rifle

   Broaderrifle

   NarrowerDragunov

   military

Questions about precision rifle

What does precision rifle mean?

precision rifle means "an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away".

What is another word for precision rifle?

Close synonyms include sniper rifle. 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 precision rifle a common word?

precision rifle 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.