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rapid-fire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rapid-fire \Rap"id-fire`\, Rapid-firing \Rap"id-fir`ing\, a.
(Gun.) Firing shots in rapid succession.
(Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single-barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); specif.: (1) In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech-loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the gun. (2) In the United States army, designating such a gun, whether using fixed or separate ammunition, designed chiefly for use in coast batteries against torpedo vessels and the lightly armored batteries or other war vessels and for the protection of defensive mine fields; -- not distinguished from quick-fire. (3) In Great Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with quick-fire.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a gun English) Able to fire bullets in quick succession. 2 (context of a series of questions English) Delivered in a rapid continuous stream.
Usage examples of "rapid-fire".
Jerking out his autopistol, he fired at the vultures, the rapid-fire popping of the 9mm cartridges insignificant in the vast expanse of shadowy mountains and red sky.
From the ground, Dai Goesle was giving rapid-fire instructions which Aleksandr Banat, beside him, translated to them in a bellow.
They both listened to the rapid-fire dialog between the paired everminds.
Such a marvel might be useful in a war a generation hence, thought McClellan, but he knew Lincoln was het up about inventionshad even taken out a patent himself for an ingenious method of lifting boats across river damsso he promised to have someone look into the rapid-firing weapon immediately.
The markers for his Speeds blinked in his holohelmet as they fired, lasers and light rapid-fire plasma cannon.
He continued to speak in his rapid-fire style, in a accentless tone that said West Coast to Eve.
The Anglic was rapid-fire, a language coequal in the Trains with Haisun and its argots.
Her blue eyes narrowed as she went back into rapid-fire arpeggios and licks, and she seemed to be thinking of something that angered her.
In an attempt to bolster this weakness—unseen by her original designers—at least seventy new, rapid-firing disrupter barbettes had been let-in to her massive hull, and she now bristled like an oversize hedgehog.
It bad two rapid-fire comedians delivering bellylaugh lines to each other.
When there are no more forced-labor camps and no more campuses surrounded by rings of police carrying rapid-fire submachine guns and wearing gas masks that make them look like great-snouted, huge-eyed root-eaters, some kind of noxious lower animal.
My own rapid-firing disruptors melted the deck all around it, burning one of the aimers in half and throwing his legs into the water.
As if in answer to Isthia's question, the station's generators screamed to full power, crescendoed, then rose again to another crescendo and another as cargoes were hurled rapid-fire to their destinations.
It was a rapid-fire flow of Latin: Cynodon dactylon, Eleusine indica, Trifolium repens.
The woman found what she wanted, a rapid-fire disk jockey, and turned up the volume, grimly satisfied, her look directed toward the top of the stairs.