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nondisappearing en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + disappearing.

Meanings

  1. (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)