multichargeadj.
/ˈmʌltɪtʃɑːdʒ/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈtʃɑrdʒ/; see also multi- comb. form. 1. Designating a gun which has a series of powder chambers along the bore. Now historical.
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chamber-bored1669
breeched1830
wire-wound1865
multicharge1883
chase-hooped1886
trunnionless1890
1883 Standard 21 Sept. 5/3 Haskell's accelerating multicharge cannon.
1895 J. R. Haskell in Cent. Mag. May 158/2 The Haskell multicharge guns of the same caliber as the single-charge guns throw a projectile weighing twice as much, with three times the weight of powder.
2. Science. Relating to or possessing more than one electric charge.
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1971 5th Internat. Cyclotron Conf. 480 The multicharge heavy ion source attached to the cyclotron injector is of the hot-cathode reflex type.
1989 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 329 408 I know of one solution to the multicharge problem, which exists whenever all M momenta lie within a four-dimensional subspace.
1996 Earth, Moon & Planets 74 17 A theoretical model for the brittle surface erosion resulting under the effect of multicharge ion cosmic rays is analyzed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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