subcaliber
English
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[edit]subcaliber (not comparable)
- Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.
- subcaliber cartridge
- subcaliber gun
- subcaliber practice
- 2017 September 5, Kenneth Peters, Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
- The M9101 on the Longsword fires subcaliber projectiles at such speeds that they would immediately begin to burn up from air friction when fired within an atmosphere.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subcaliber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)