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suppressor
Word definitions for suppressor in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device. 2 # Part of the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon. 3 A person who suppresses others, a tyrant. 4 A gene that suppresses ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who suppresses; "dictators are suppressors of free speech" [syn: suppresser ] a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) [syn: suppresser , suppressor gene , suppresser gene ] an electrical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppressor \Sup*press"or\, n. [L., hider.] One who suppresses.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A suppressor , sound suppressor , sound moderator , or silencer is a device attached to or part of the barrel of a firearm or air gun which reduces the amount of noise and visible muzzle flash generated by firing. Silencers are typically constructed of ...
Usage examples of suppressor.
His lordship, this Englishman, Lord of London, Scorner of Ireland, Suppressor of France, has quitted his governments, and left his enemies to breathe for a moment, and has crossed the broad waters in strict disguise, with a small but eternally faithful retinue of followers, in order that he might look upon the bright countenance of the Pasha among Pashas - the Pasha of the everlasting Pashalik of Karagholookoldour.
Or what a terrorist might carry, some soft-eyed boy from Adana, slung over his shoulder, Kalashnikov, sweet whisper in the dark, with a flash suppressor and folding stock.
Magazine here, suppressor here, foregrip here, bolt here, buttstock here.
Somewhere aboard Vega Jumpoff they had assembled a mighty rault suppressor.
He reached out for the suppressor, but stayed his hand on the knob as new, incomprehensible impressions assailed his glial receptors, compelling his attention.
We have individual suppressors for each person, each structure, each piece of equipment Yours is in your coat pocket.
Even without the suppressors the sense of unreality was almost as strong as it had been on the first occasion.
While adjusting the induction feed, an ordinary chair would have also been dripping chemical suppressors into his bloodstream, hypnotic medications that would have dampened his sense of self and opened his mind to pure experience, unfiltered by his own consciousness.
It contained enough pain suppressors, coagulators, and stim boosters (most of them straight from the controlled substances list) to keep a dead man on his feet, not to mention an ultra-sophisticated endorphin generator and at least three drugs Okanami had never even heard of.
It computes, for instance, on the alliances with friends and symbiotes and its greatest victories are achieved by taking some of the suppressor and turning it into an alliance factor.
He checked the Allen screw securing the suppressor before holstering the weapon.
He checked the chamber and checked the Allen screw securing the suppressor.
In fact, any sound or vibration would be a very bad sign indeed, shock waves overloading the antisound suppressors, jolts maxing out the electrogravitics, supports buckling and bulkheads crumpling.
Final factory price for the suppressor was probably more than two hundred.
From the spot above the Mac-10's outline, he took down the heavy, cylindrical sound and flash suppressor and screwed it into place.