Definitions for machine gun
ma·chine gun

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1. machine gunverb

   a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)

2. machine gunverb

   shoot with a machine gun

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1. machine gunnoun

   A fully automatic rapid-firing rifle, which continues to fire bullets repeatedly as long as the trigger is depressed; lighter versions may be carried in the hands, and heavier versions may be mounted on a tripod, vehicle, or other mount. The lighweight versions are sometimes called a submachine gun.

2. machine gunadjective

   Occurring in rapid succession, like the firing of a machine gun; as, Tom was a persuasive speaker, with a smooth deep voice, polysyllabic vocabulary, and a machine-gun articulation that overwhelmed listeners.

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1. machine gunnoun

   A type of firearm that continuously fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger.

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1. Machine gun

   A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic shotguns and automatic rifles (including assault rifles and battle rifles) are typically designed more for firing short bursts rather than continuous firepower, and are not considered true machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapon, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoils. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms. Machine guns can be further categorized as light machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, general purpose machine guns and squad automatic weapons. Similar automatic firearms of 20 mm (0.79 in) caliber or more are classified as autocannons, rather than machine guns.

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1. machine gun

   A machine gun is a type of automatic firearm designed to rapidly fire bullets from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute. This rapid rate of fire makes them highly effective in warfare, law enforcement and in some cases, hunting. Machine guns can be mounted on vehicles or tripods, or carried by individuals. It was developed in the late 19th century and has since been a significant element in ground combats.

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1. Machine gun

   A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute. Machine guns are generally categorized as submachine guns, machine guns, or autocannons. Submachine guns are hand-held small portable automatic weapons for personal defense or short-range combat firing pistol-caliber rounds. A machine gun is often portable to a certain degree, but is generally used when attached to a mount or fired from the ground on a bipod, and generally fires a rifle cartridge. Light machine guns are small enough to be fired and are hand-held like a rifle, but are more effective when fired from a prone position. The difference between machine guns and autocannons is based on caliber, with autocannons using calibers larger than 16 mm. Another factor is whether the gun fires conventional rounds or explosive rounds. Guns firing large-caliber explosive rounds are generally considered either autocannons or automatic grenade launchers. In contrast to submachine guns and autocannons, machine guns tend to share the characteristic of a very high ratio of barrel length to caliber; indeed, a true machine gun is essentially a fully automatic rifle, and often the primary criterion for a machine gun as opposed to an automatic rifle is the presence of a quick-change barrel or other cooling system.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of machine gun in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of machine gun in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of machine gun in a Sentence

1. Colonel Sonny Leggett:

   Current reports indicate an individual in an Afghan uniform opened fire on the combined U.S. and Afghan force with a machine gun, we are still collecting information and the cause or motive behind the attack is unknown at this time.

2. Randal Malone:

   She developed a style called the machine gun tap, which meant she could do 500 taps a minute.

3. Yossi Melman:

   I stopped believing the reports from the official and semi-official media in Iran regarding the circumstances around the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they are publishing various and even contradictory details : Assassins ? Motorcyclists ? A booby-trapped car ? A machine gun that fires automatically ? It seems to me that Iranian and Israeli intelligence to which this is attributed deals with psychological warfare, disinformation, and the obstruction of evidence.

4. Kim Gae-youn:

   If you're in the trenches, you want to have a machine gun, a grenade, a mine on hand, there are also different needs depending on individual markets, so regional sales staff naturally can't be happy when the company moves to rationalize and restructure from a global structure. The transition process is painful.

5. Abdullah Faaruuq:

   They say Aafia Saddiqui took up a machine gun while they held Aafia Saddiqui captive in the other room and was ready to attack her captors, what a brave woman she is. And if my mother was in the same place, she would have taken her West Indian machete and cut her way through those kafirs( infidels).

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=machine gun
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=machine gun
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Machine_Gun
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=machine gun