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(uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact. / (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.

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gunnery

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gunnery

Noun

uncountable usually countable

(uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact. / (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.

Japanese Meaning

銃および発射の科学：弾丸の飛行や衝撃など、銃火器の動作に関する科学的な側面を含む。 / 大口径銃など、銃火器の設計および製造に関する技術・工学。

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The instructor's lecture on gunnery covered bullet trajectories, recoil management, and armor penetration.

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教官の弾道学に関する講義は、弾道の軌跡、反動の制御、装甲貫通について扱っていた。

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(uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact.

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(uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.

Originally, doubtless, that petty officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword, or cutlass. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery, making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent, and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased …

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