As a general rule, revolvers cannot be effective with a sound suppressor (" silencer "), as there is usually a small gap between the revolving cylinder and the barrel which a bullet must traverse or jump when fired.

The word " bullet " is sometimes colloquially used to refer to ammunition in general, or to a cartridge, which is a combination of the bullet, case / shell, powder, and primer.

From a thermodynamic point of view, a firearm is a special type of piston engine, or in general heat engine where the bullet has a function of a piston.

" Slight " in this context means an injury that was not classified as " serious " ( i. e., did not require detention in hospital, did not involve fractures, concussion, severe general shock, penetration by a bullet or multiple shot wounds ).

The term has been adopted into a general metaphor, where " silver bullet " refers to any straightforward solution perceived to have extreme effectiveness.

At the initial sound of gunfire, a panicked Sam Pellar drew his. 38 and instinctively fired a shot in the general direction of shooters ( this bullet unintentionally struck Weiss as he collapsed onto the sidewalk ).

The Mk VII was different from earlier. 303 bullet designs or spitzer projectiles in general.

A stray bullet struck Forrest's horse, felling the general and bruising him.

If a company carrying on more than one trade draws up accounts of any of them to different dates, and does not make up general accounts for the whole of the company's activities, the company may determine that any one of those dates shall be taken into consideration for the purposes of determining whether an accounting period has ended under the rule in the second bullet point above.

Peng, a retired one-star general, revealed on TV that he would not " take a bullet for President Chen.

Despite the general facade repair made between 1970-1972 the damage still can be seen because the builders used lighter sandstone to repair the bullet holes.

The message seemed in part a response to the attacks lobbed against the band by preachers and televangelists, especially Jimmy Swaggart, who denounced rock music in general — and Petra in particular — as tools of the devil.

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

In general, a high anode voltage reduces chromatic aberrations and thus increases the obtainable resolution.

In general, however, it may be said that when a boy or a girl leaves the high school, the school authorities play little or no part in the decision of what happens next.

He prefers to designate such schools as `` general '' high schools.

-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

Although the lowest salinity values are just north of the equator ( because of heavy tropical rainfall ), in general the lowest values are in the high latitudes and along coasts where large rivers enter.

Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.

In general, the plateau experiences high temperatures and almost no rainfall in summer and cold weather with heavy snow in winter.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Furthermore, in general, with the exception of the Contra Maniera ( Counter-Mannerism ) artists, it dared not stray from high themes or stray into high emotion.

Indeed, Disraeli had objected to Murray about Croker inserting " high Tory " sentiment, writing that " it is quite impossible that anything adverse to the general measure of Reform can issue from my pen.

At the current time, it is more economical to smelt copper ore rather than to use bioleaching, since the concentration of copper in its ore is in general quite high.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

The new party and the Liberals quickly formed an alliance, which for a while polled as high as 50 % in the opinion polls and appeared capable of winning the next general election.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

For several decades from the 1970s to early 2000s, the focus in designing high performance general purpose CPUs was largely on achieving high ILP through technologies such as pipelining, caches, superscalar execution, out-of-order execution, etc.

The rheological shear thinning properties find beneficial in the preparation of the suspensions and in their use, as the reduced viscosity at high shear rates facilitates deagglomeration, mixing and in general the flow of the suspensions.

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

A term dating from the 1940s, " general abstract nonsense ", refers to its high level of abstraction, compared to more classical branches of mathematics.

The Cadillac Institute of Cosmetology ( formerly Cadillac Academy of Beauty ) is a full service teaching salon in downtown Cadillac that offers training for general cosmetologists and specialized technicians to high school students through a partnership with Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District.

Under previous general manager Gebhard, the Rockies had largely neglected their farm system and mostly relied on signing veteran free agents from other clubs ; this was possible due to the high attendance numbers in the club's first few years of attendance.

For trajectories other than circular motion, for example, the more general trajectory envisioned in the image above, the instantaneous center of rotation and radius of curvature of the trajectory are related only indirectly to the coordinate system defined by u < sub > ρ </ sub > and u < sub > θ </ sub > and to the length | r ( t )|

In applying corrections to the trajectory or course being steered cybernetics can be seen as the most general approach to error and its correction for the achievement of any goal.

Now, in general, the trajectory P ( t ) is not constrained to lie on a circular cylinder, so the radius R varies with time, and the trajectory in cylindrical-polor coordinates becomes

Scattering is a general physical process where some forms of radiation, such as light, sound, or moving particles, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by one or more localized non-uniformities in the medium through which they pass.

In Italy, Galileo noted that individual taxation of minute amounts could fund large sums to the State, which could then fund his research on the trajectory of cannonballs, noting that " each individual soldier was being paid from coin collected by a general tax of pennies and farthings, while even a million of gold would not suffice to pay the entire army.

The ' I ' of the poems, the authorial person, is in two cases named as Terence ( VIII, LXII ), the ' Shropshire Lad ' of the title: however, the poems are not necessarily all in the same voice, and the narrative suggested by the sequence, or themed groups, of poems is a general framework rather than a closely defined trajectory.

Whether Abu Bakr intended a full-out imperial conquest or not is hard to say ; he did, however, set in motion a historical trajectory that in just a few short decades would lead to one of the largest empires in history, beginning with a confrontation with the Sassanid Empire under the general Khalid ibn al-Walid.

The following melodic line of the second measure resembles the second measure of Handel's theme in general trajectory ( Brahms's theme is also strikingly similar to the subject of Fugue VI from Felix Mendelssohn's Six Preludes and Fugues, Op.

In physics, EP quantum mechanics is a theory of motion of point particles, partly included in the framework of quantum trajectory representation theories of quantum mechanics, based upon an equivalence postulate similar in content to the equivalence principle of general relativity, rather than on the traditional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.