multi-barrel

Multiple firing chambers

Multi-barrel describes guns or other devices with more than one barrel, allowing multiple shots or outputs: a multi-barrel machine gun, multi-barrel rocket launchers.

The design increases firepower or rate of fire.

The term extends to any equipment with multiple parallel tubes or channels.

firearms

shotgun

Long gun firing shot

birdshot · buckshot · choke · breach · trigger · hunting · skeet · clay pigeon · fowling · scatter

rotary

Gatling

Eponymous firearms inventor

motorized · ammunition · belt-fed · suppression · military · aircraft · helicopter · gunship · mount · turret

engines

carburetor

Engine fuel-air mixer

horsepower · tuning · manifold · venturi · jetting · air-fuel · muscle car · hot rod · supercharger · drag racing

industrial

extruder

Machine forcing material through openings

dispenser · applicator · pharmaceutical · filling · bottling · throughput · production · parallel · simultaneous · dosing

Opposites
barrel quantity

multi-barrelderringer

Compact concealed firearm

firing capacity design

multi-barrelsingle-action

Requires manual cocking

bolt-action · muzzle-loader · breech-loader

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated PG