fuze

NOUN
  1. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
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How To Use fuze In A Sentence

  • This round is fuzed with the M758 Point Detonating Self-Destruct fuze, developed and produced exclusively by Alliant Techsystems.
  • When firing against ships or earthworks, the fuze should be a little longer than necessary, in order to reach the object before bursting; but a little shorter when firing against boats or masses of troops, in order to insure its bursting in front of them. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
  • Typically, these fuzes rely on mechanical arming and firing to initiate explosive line charges used for clearing a breached path through a series of mines or obstacles.
  • I have an att fuze and i dont get any dropped calls my data speed is a little bit on the slow side (testmyiphone shows higher then edge speeds though) but other then that no real problems. Poll: Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy AT&T’s iPhone
  • It took 200 proximity fuzed 5″/38s to down a single Kamikaze. The Killer Angel « Isegoria
  • Based on feedback from the Navy scientists, Nadler can tweak the structures to help optimize the overall device - known as a fuze - which controls when and where a munition will explode. Undefined
  • Wretchard looks back at The Killer Angel, which most of us know as the proximity fuze created by Vannevar Bush and the Crosley Corporation: The Killer Angel « Isegoria
  • The new fuze will increase the ‘maximum efficiency’ significantly and give the British Trident submarines hard target kill capability for the first time.
  • But the "warlike Christian man" who actually came to furnish the firing line for Virginia, was destined to be the Scotch-Irishman and the German with long rifle in place of "fuzee" and "simeter," and altogether too restless to have his continual abode within the space of two hundred acres. The Frontier in American History
  • All shells, unless otherwise ordered, are fitted and issued from the shell-houses with the 5-seconds fuze, which is to be regarded as the general working fuze. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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