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Recoil

Recoil meaning

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking. | The state or condition of having recoiled. | The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.

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The M16's straight-line recoil design, where the recoil spring is located in the stock directly behind the action, and serves the dual function of operating spring and recoil buffer.

This weapon lacks a counter-recoil brake, as the force of the counter-recoil is checked by recoil from the firing of the next round of ammunition.

The MG 338 appears to use a recoil-mitigating system in which the barrel shifts backwards into the rifle platform, similar to the long recoil mitigation on the M2 platform.

Additional recoil energy is also lost during absorption, so in order for resonance to occur the recoil energy must actually be less than half the linewidth for the corresponding nuclear transition.

Gas-operated, and to a lesser extent recoil-operated, designs will recoil less than either.

However, the recoil of the parent nucleus (alpha recoil) gives it a significant amount of energy, which also causes ionization damage (see ionizing radiation ).

Later, as on-carriage recoil-absorbing systems eliminated many of the advantages that siege platforms had enjoyed over field carriages, the same combination of barrel assembly, recoil mechanism and carriage was used in both roles.

Since the direction of the recoil electron is constrained to be very forward, the direction of the neutrinos are kept in the direction of recoil electrons.

This mechanism was soon refined to include a recoil spring and a centrifugal governor to control the recoil speed.

Thus in a fraction of the nuclear events (the recoil-free fraction, given by the Lamb–Mössbauer factor ), the entire crystal acts as the recoiling body, and these events are essentially recoil-free.

As a general rule, I try to forget that humans have bodies and encourage everyone I interact with to do the same — yet through the power of SKIMS, the mere concept of being perceived did not cause me to recoil like a salted slug.

As an exclusive attachment, the TMP Stock increases the TMP submachine gun’s accuracy while reducing its recoil.

Because of the recoil damage, it cannot do this indefinitely but will grant one plenty of chances to cause havoc to the opponent's side.

But I have seen enough modern mission select screens to viscerally recoil at what’s currently presented in theleak above.

But the black rifle had little recoil.

Donald Trump’s despicable speech, however, should make every American recoil in horror that he would use such a dehumanizing tactic toward people who disagree with him.

For only a slight decrease in horizontal and vertical recoil control, players gain a much faster reload speed.

He also suggests that any population policy at this stage is bound to recoil because it will appear to be directed towards a particular community.

However, the slow Rounds per Minute and Recoil make Handcannons somewhat obsolete when compared to other weapons.

It also has decent recoil.