Gun

A gun is a mechanical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air.

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The term gun is often used as a synonym to firearm, but in its more technical usage refers only to artillery that fires projectiles at a high velocity along a flat trajectory, such as field guns, tank guns and anti-tank guns, and naval guns. Howitzers, mortars, and all hand-held firearms are excluded from this definition. The exception to this is the shotgun, which is hand-held, has a smooth bore and fires a cartridge of pellets.

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The word gun is also applied to some more or less vaguely gun-like tools, glue gun for example.

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Projectile: A projectile is any object sent through the air by the application of some force....

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Firearm: A firearm is a kinetic energy mechanical device that fires either single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. This process of rapid burning is technically known as deflagration. In older firearms, this prope...

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