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榴弹炮 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • howitzer noun A large gun that fires shells on a high, curving path, combining features of field guns and mortars.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

榴弹炮 is used for these senses in English:

  • howitzer A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.
  • shell (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.

howitzer — full definition

  1. noun A large gun that fires shells on a high, curving path, combining features of field guns and mortars.
  2. noun (informal) A shot struck very hard, especially in sport.

shell — full definition

  1. noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
  2. noun An explosive projectile fired from artillery.
  3. noun The outer frame or structure of something, especially when unfinished or empty inside.
  4. noun A computer program that provides a command-line interface for interacting with an operating system.
  5. verb To remove the outer covering from something, such as a nut or pea.
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