nondisappearing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From non- + disappearing.
Adjective
[edit]nondisappearing (not comparable)
- (military, historical) Being the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.
- 1896, Fifth Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, page 15:
- Allotments were made for the test of the gun-lift battery and the nondisappearing barbette carriages.
- 1902, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War (part 1, page 9)
- 12-inch gun-lift carriages, altered to nondisappearing.