[lojban] Re: railgun

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:59:21PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov
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.

Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun" as in "chemical projectile
weapon" in my LNC story.

Using a similar construct for railgun gives makyjimcelxa'i, with a
place structure something like:

$x_1 = c_1$ 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.

-Robin

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