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Definitions of recoil in various dictionaries:
noun - the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
noun - a movement back from an impact
verb - draw back, as with fear or pain
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| Revulsion action |
| Pistol's kickback |
| Display disgust |
| Shrink back |
| Flinch |
| Rifle effect |
| Shrink back in horror |
| Display horror, perhaps |
| Shrink in fear |
| Draw back in fear or disgust |
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| (Sofia of the Clue Crew fires a shotgun out in the hills.) Newton's third law of motion explains why this 6-letter reaction happens after I discharge the gun |
| The backward jerk of a gun when it's fired |
| The backwards movement of a gun after it's been fired |
| To spring back upon firing |
| An example of the conservation of momentum in action is this felt by a person who fires a gun |
| The backwards jerk after a gun is fired, or to jerk back in revulsion |
| AKA kick, it's the sudden rearward push made against a shooter when a gun has been fired |
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| To fall back return: "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent ( Arthur Conan Doyle). |
| a movement back from an impact |
| the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired |
| draw back, as with fear or pain |
| spring back spring away from an impact |
| spring back, as from a forceful thrust |
| to move back because of fear or disgust ( dislike or disapproval): |
| to refuse to accept an idea or principle, feeling strong dislike or disapproval: |
| the sudden backward movement that a gun makes when it is fired |
| to make a sudden movement away from something esp. because of fear or disgust: |
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Recoil (often called knockback, kickback or simply kick) is the backward movement of a gun when it is discharged. In technical terms, the recoil momentum acquired by the gun exactly balances the forward momentum of the projectile and exhaust gases (ejecta), according to Newton's third law, known as conservation of momentum. In hand-held small arms, the recoil momentum is transferred to the ground through the body of the shooter; while in heavier guns such as mounted machine guns or cannons, recoil momentum is transferred to the ground through the mount. * In order to bring the rearward moving gun to a halt, the momentum acquired by the gun is dissipated by a forward acting counter-recoil force applied to the gun over a period of time after the projectile exits the muzzle. To apply this counter-recoiling force, modern mounted guns may employ recoil buffering comprising springs and hydraulic recoil mechanisms, similar to shock absorbing suspension on automobiles. Early cannons used systems |