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--- "Aleksej R. Serdyukov"
<deletesoftware@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>Just wondering (nowhere to write, nothing
> here to call). Is there
> >>a word for railgun yet? Not mentioning the
> ones in games, but the
> >>real thing.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
> > 
> > It would appear that there isn't much of the
> real thing.
> 
> Theory needs words, too! Useless practice even
> more.
> 
> > Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun" as
> in "chemical projectile
> > weapon" in my LNC story.
> 
> Hm, what is "jim" for here?

The bullets are metal {jinme} (one of the extra
components: either superfluous or wrong depending
on your position on ceramic bullets, for
example).
 
> > Using a similar construct for railgun gives
> makyjimcelxa'i, with a
> > place structure something like:
> 
> I think, {makce'a} is enough...
> For railgun/coilgun used as weapon, it would be
> {makcelxa'i}.

This lacks the shooter and the target, if you
need them (and the evidence of usages as reported
is that you do (though, of course, you could get
them with prepositions). {magycelxa'i} gets the
essentials -- all the places and the distinction
from the other kinds of launchers: boom, swish,
spoing, and bounce, if these are really needed.

> > $x_1 = c_1$ is a railgun/magnetically
> launched metal slug throwing
> > weapon for use against x2 by x3; weapon fires
> metallic object(s) j1
> > using magnetic ojbect(s) m1
> > 
> > j2 and m2 are dropped due to being mostly
> useless.
> 
> There is also coilgun that must be differed
> from railgun, because its
> requirements are completely different. People
> often make coilguns at 
> home, but making a railgun at home is not very
> wise, because it is 
> dangerous more than useful. You just can't take
> it outside, I guess. :)
> 
> Is there a word for coil or gauss?
> 
> 
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