The XM-291 also mounts a larger gun tube and a larger ignition chamber than the existing M256 L / 44 main gun.

The main technical advantage of the brass cartridge case was the effective and reliable sealing of high pressure gasses at the breech, as the gas pressure forces the cartridge case to expand outward, pressing it firmly against the inside of the gun barrel chamber.

A gas turbine is a rotary machine similar in principle to a steam turbine and it consists of three main components: a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.

A gas turbine is a rotary machine somewhat similar in principle to a steam turbine and it consists of three main components: a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.

The main limitations on fuels are that it must be easily transportable through the fuel system to the combustion chamber, and that the fuel releases sufficient energy in the form of heat upon combustion to make practical use of the engine.

Years later, in the 1980s, with liberals in charge of the congress, they passed a resolution to turn the whole chamber in the Elliptic Room 90 degrees to put the main mural on the side and commissioned Alejandro Obregon to paint a non-partisan mural in the surrealist style.

He then turned his attention to the top of the mound, broke through and, over a period of a few days, emptied the main chamber of material that had filled it completely.

The main difference between the two processes is the temperature the wafer is exposed to while in an ashing chamber.

Those with more than one chamber may have multiple sub-chambers leading off from the main burial chamber.

Naturalia ( minerals and gemstones ) were arranged in a 37 cabinet display that had three vaulted chambers in front, each about 5. 5 metres wide by 3 metres high and 60 metres long, connected to a main chamber 33 metres long.

# The Senate is the main governing and legislative body that meets in a large chamber in the capital city on Romulus.

The Romulan government consists of several parts: the Romulan Senate, the main governing and legislative body in a large chamber on Romulus.

A system may be able to evacuate nitrogen ( the main component of air ) to the desired vacuum, but the chamber could still be full of residual atmospheric hydrogen and helium.

The fuel was then pumped into the main burner chamber through 1, 224 nozzles, which assured the correct mixture of alcohol and oxygen at all times.

Therefore, local policy decisions are sometimes heavily influenced by the TDs who represent the local constituency in Dáil Éireann ( the main chamber of parliament ), and may be dictated by national politics rather than local needs.

The main characteristics of the offset smoker are that the cooking chamber is usually cylindrical in shape, with a shorter, smaller diameter cylinder attached to the bottom of one end for a firebox.

These are displayed to the public in the main chamber of the National Archives, which is called the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.

Materials used in construction include teak wood or tun wood ( Cedrela tuna ), which is a variation of mahogany, for the neck and faceplate ( tabli ), and gourds for the kaddu ( the main resonating chamber ).

M 98 controlled-feed bolt-action system ; a = chamber, b = front main locking lugs recess, c = receiver, d = internal magazine spring, e = ammunition stripper clip, f = bolt group, g = firing pin, h = pistol grip.

* The powder ignites, and the flash passes through a small hole in the barrel ( called a vent or touchhole ) that leads to the combustion chamber where it ignites the main powder charge, and the gun discharges.

More expensive PCP rifles and pistols are often pressure regulated, i. e. the firing valve operates within a secondary chamber separated from the main air reservoir by the regulator body.

The regulator maintains pressure within this secondary chamber at a set pressure lower than the main reservoir's.

Inside the main chamber of Halliggye Fogou, Trelowarren, Cornwall

The main theme has a distinct 1960s feel to it and is known to be a highly complex piece of music due to the quick playing of the Violin.

It is assumed that players will portray the children of the main characters from the books-the ruling family of Amber, known as the Elder Amberites-or a resident of the Courts.

Fingerspelling as the main form of communication is known as the Rochester Method, also known as Visible English.

Gaudí's multicolored mosaic salamander, popularly known as " el drac " ( the dragon ), at the main entrance, prior to vandalism early in 2007

Vessels may carry a number of anchors: bower anchors ( formerly known as sheet anchors ) are the main anchors used by a vessel and normally carried at the bow of the vessel.

Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, is the main character of the second half of Acts.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

There are two main strains of contemporary Germanic Paganism known as Ásatrú, originating near-simultaneously in Iceland (, 1972 ) and the USA ( Asatru Free Assembly, 1974 ).

The other main lines were the Ascetosporea, the Myxozoa ( now known to be derived from animals ), and the Microsporidia ( now known to be derived from fungi ).

Aimaks were originally known as chahar (" four ") Aymaqs: the Taimani ( the main element in the population of Ghor ), the Ferozkohi, the Temuri, and the Jamshidi.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

At certain times, London has had no overall city government and boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners ; in Tokyo, they are known as wards or cities, and have city status, but these still form parts of a larger municipal government which has merged with that of the prefecture.

* In manga, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King, Ryu possesses a wooden sword and uses it as his main weapon, and for that reason he is also known as Bokuto no Ryu ( Wooden Sword Ryu ).

* Dexippus, Scythica, ( fragments of a lost work which is the main known source of all later Roman and Byzantine historians and chronographers ), in Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, entry 100, ed.

No matter whether it appeared above or below a main strip, the extra strip was known as the topper, such as The Squirrel Cage which ran along with Room and Board, both drawn by Gene Ahern.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

In modern systems the performance difference between the CPU and main memory has grown so great that increasing amounts of high-speed memory is built directly into the CPU, known as a cache.

The main source of injuries comes from stunting, also known as pyramids.

Publicly known flaws are the main entry used by worms to automatically break into a system and then spread to other systems connected to it.