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m16

n. (alternative form of M-16 English)

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M16

M16 or M-16 may refer to:

Firearms and military equipment
  • M16 rifle, a United States military rifle
  • M16 mine, a United States landmine
  • Grigorovich M-16, a Russian World War I–era biplane flying boat
  • Stahlhelm, a German World War I helmet
  • M16 (rocket), a United States artillery rocket of World War II and the Korean War
  • M16 MGMC, an anti-aircraft variant of the M3 Half-track
Transportation
  • M16 motorway, former designation for parts of the M25
  • M-16 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), an important magistral road connecting Banja Luka to Croatia
  • M16 (New York City bus), a former New York City Bus route in Manhattan now named M34A SBS
  • M16 (New York City bus franchise), a former New York City Bus route in Manhattan now named M8
  • Miles M.16 Mentor, a 1930s British single-engined three-seat monoplane training and communications aircraft
  • M Scow (M-16), a 16-foot sailboat
  • M-16, a former designation for U.S. Route 16 in Michigan
  • M16 is the FAA location identifier of John Bell Williams Airport, Raymond, Mississippi
  • Midland M16, a Formula One car run by Midland F1 in 2006
Other uses
  • M-16 (album), an album from German band Sodom
  • Messier 16 (M16), a nebula also called the Eagle Nebula and its associated star cluster
  • M16, a postcode in the M postcode area that covers part of Greater Manchester, England
  • M16, code for Coxarthrosis (arthrosis of the hip) in the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10
  • M16C, a model of microcontroller sold by Renesas but originally developed by Mitsubishi
  • M16, a line of folding knives by Columbia River Knife & Tool
M16 (rocket)

The M16 was a spin-stabilized unguided rocket developed by the United States Army during the Second World War. Entering service in April 1945 to replace the earlier fin-stabilised M8 rocket, it was used late in the war and also during the Korean War before being removed from service.

Usage examples of "m16".

The M16 and the K-Bar seemed fitting emblems of that place, even more now than when, freshly returned from Vietnam and with a headful of memories that he could not shake, he had taken them for his bedside companions.

I had an M16 pointing at the head of the driver and Eno had an LMG ready to stop the car and its passengers if there was any threat to this local army VCP.

Everybody was carrying his personal choice of weapon that he considered would be good at such close ranges-SLR, 203 and M16, and shotgun.

In the old days, with a division of responsibilities in Northern Ireland between MIS and M16, intelligence generally was piss poor.

It was an oldtype M16 with a triangular stock, left leaning against the trike.

Kaiser Center, but the K-Bar remained a reassuring presence on the table by the bed, and the loaded and very illegal M16 stood ready in the corner.

Uzi and the M16 when they had sprayed their death into the darkness, and he had not cared at all about the skin color of those he had killed.

Now only a gleaming steel door, guarded by an alert female soldier bearing an M16 assault rifle, stood between Shannon and the answers she craved.

Soldiers, surely, because they both held the same model M16 automatic rifles that Moon had trained with at Fort Benning.

Army-issue M16 rifle against it, balanced a small bowl on his left knee, and began eating from it with his fingers.

On a vague hunch, she made sure her M16 was locked and loaded -- just in case -- and sat back on her heels to wait.

As he came around the last trailer, a spaceman stepped out in front of him, startling the hell out of him, especially since the spaceman was holding an M16 rifle at port arms.

The Official Secrets Act prohibits the publication of almost any document or fact that the government chooses to conceal, from crimes by M16 to educational statistics.