What is "high-velocity"

Usage examples of "high-velocity".

The molded polycarbonate breastplate had rounded pectorals designed to turn even high-velocity bullets, but the impact still rocked him back on his heels, and the blunt trauma momentarily stunned him.

Larger machines with hardened circuitry succumb to repeated blasts of high-velocity flechettes and point defense lasers.

Hector was swatting them out of the sky almost as swiftly as they arrived, with flickering lasers and shotgun blasts of high-velocity flechettes wrecking !

Each time I fire a Hellbore, tens, even hundreds of floaters drop to the ground, their circuits fried by Hettbore-launch EMPs, or dissolve in fragments as point-defense lasers or high-velocity flechettes slash through them.

I catch a three-meter floater with a full load of high-velocity flechettes as it tries tofoUow Shari Barstowe into the entrance.

The report noted that it was likely that both Army and Gardai held some stocks of high-velocity ammunition which could be used with a handgun… but such rounds would almost certainly be employed for evaluation and comparison purposes, in a restricted environment such as laboratory testing.

The new British gun, which Jack had acquired from a black-market arms dealer in Miami, had a two-inch bore and fired a high-velocity, steel-jacketed tear-gas shell that could penetrate most wooden doors or punch through a boarded window.

The glacis plate laughed at even high-velocity five-centimeter shells.

Comparing the high-velocity and low-velocity starscapes gives clues to possible hazards ahead — spectral absortion lines or gravitational lensings, for instance.

Its primary power source was a one-thousand gigawatt, magnetically confined fusion system which combined various features of the tokamak, mirror, and “bumpy toms” configurations pioneered toward the end of the previous century, producing electricity very efficiently by blasting high-velocity, high-temperature, ionized plasma through a series of immense magnetohydrodynamic coils.

Even if you put a nice heavy high-velocity load right on the money, just punch a couple of vertebrae right out and bounce the skull off the ceiling, there'll still be about a ten-to-fifteen-percent chance that the corpse's trigger finger will clench.

He stood quietly in the tub—three shampooings it took before the mud didn't run off him anymore—he let her blow the water from his coat with the high-velocity dryer, and he went quietly from her arms into a second-tier crate to sit under the stand dryers while she scrubbed his collar and tags and cleaned up the tub area.

When all the energy generated by a team of four galloping horses was focused on the gleaming tip of that sharp spear point, it was if a high-velocity cannon shell tore into its target.

He ducked as he reloaded, thankful of an excuse to get out of the way of the light high-velocity bullets that tinked and spanged off the stones before him.