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  • noun Plural form of railgun.

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Examples

  • No country's armed forces ever adopted his electromagnetic cannon, but the technology has since been adapted and extended to make "railguns" (electromagnetic mass accelerators) for the American Strategic Defense Initiative --- the so-called "Star Wars" Defense.

    The Northern Lights: Summary and book reviews of The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago. 2001

  • And of course lose different body parts when shot with railguns, missiles or laser!

    Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • For example, the protagonist is usually an innocent, sometimes a child, rather than a fully-trained killing machine armed with railguns and automatic shotguns.

    F.E.A.R. Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Her packet plasma cannon used a terawatt generator to supercompress helium and then magnetic coils, similar to her railguns, to instantly accelerate that packet to .3 of lightspeed.

    Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift 2009

  • For example, the protagonist is usually an innocent, sometimes a child, rather than a fully-trained killing machine armed with railguns and automatic shotguns.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Btw where are the cloning facilities, and the big anti-matter power generators, and the Ion guns, pulse cannons and railguns.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Virtual Mario 2005

  • Those left home lived on an increasingly poisonous landscape, operating the deep mantle mines and the enormous railguns that spat the bones of their world into someone else's space.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • He thought he could picture them with pistols rather than railguns, but that was equally absurd, particularly the fact that they'd both missed.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • It's designed with enough power overhead to potentially replace the main 155mm guns with electromagnetic railguns

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • There's nothing quite like the rush of running, falling, jumping and crawling your way toward the release switch whilst under fire from rockets, railguns and lasers ... then jabbing that switch and rel ...

    2404 - PC Gaming Bj? 2010

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