Explore Recoil through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rebound or spring. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Recoil in a sentence
Related words
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.
Synonyms of Recoil
Using Recoil
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: rebound, spring, bound, ricochet.
- In the example corpus, recoil often appears in combinations such as: the recoil, recoil and, recoil of.
Context around Recoil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Recoil
- In this selection, "recoil" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, counter, line, long, spring, energy and free stand out and add context to how "recoil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a counter recoil brake as and additional recoil energy is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "recoil" sits close to words such as aca, alexei and alligator, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with recoil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It also has decent recoil. (5 words)
But the black rifle had little recoil. (7 words)
Gas-operated, and to a lesser extent recoil-operated, designs will recoil less than either. (15 words)
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. (35 words)
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. (33 words)
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. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
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 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.
It has ok penetration and ok damage, but neither stat makes it stand out amongst other options, although it does have -6% recoil modifier, which is nice.
Common combinations with recoil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the recoil 34×
- recoil and 19×
- recoil of 14×
- to recoil 12×
- recoil from 10×
- recoil in 9×
- recoil spring 6×
- recoil at 6×
- recoil as 5×
- and recoil 4×