nondisappearing en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + disappearing.
Meanings
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(historical, not-comparable) Being the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.
Allotments were made for the test of the gun-lift battery and the nondisappearing barbette carriages.
1896, Fifth Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, page 15:12-inch gun-lift carriages, altered to nondisappearing.
1902, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War (part 1, page 9)