superelevation

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile.

日本語の意味

重力の影響を考慮して、銃口を標的の直線より上方に向ける必要がある角度。

英語の意味

The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile.

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The artillery officer calculated the superelevation needed to ensure the shell would arc and strike the target despite gravity.

砲兵将校は、砲弾が重力の影響で落下することを考慮して目標線よりも銃を上げる必要のある角度を計算し、砲弾が放物線を描いて目標に命中するようにした。

詳細

意味（1）

The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile.

意味（2）

The cant of a railway track; the difference in elevation (height) between its two edges, as on a curve.

In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.

詳細

superelevations （ plural ）