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Smoothbore

A smoothbore weapon has a barrel without rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars. Some examples of smoothbore weapons are muskets, blunderbusses, and flintlock pistols. The opposite of smoothbore is rifling.

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Smoothbore

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples18
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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Smoothbore

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related to Artillery and tanks · 9
Smoothbore → ACR, Advanced Combat Rifle, However, Instead, Just, Not, The, The ACR, These
related to Gallery · 6
Smoothbore → Battle, Dahlgren, Grand Turk, San Jacinto, Twin Sisters, USS Monitor
related to Small arms · 2
Smoothbore → Another, While
related to Current use · 1
Smoothbore → Some

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rifling barrel projectile range artillery rifled smoothbores firearms century fire guns use barrels however tank weapons muskets projectiles accuracy small

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksThe0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksHowever0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksThese0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksInstead0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksNot0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksAdvanced Combat Rifle0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksACR0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksThe ACR0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Artillery and tanksJust0.60section
Smoothborerelated to Current useSome0.60section
Smoothborerelated to GalleryGrand Turk0.60section
Smoothborerelated to GalleryTwin Sisters0.60section

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