frangible
IPA: frˈændʒʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.
adjective
- Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.
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Examples of "frangible" in Sentences
- There are no frangible bullets fired.
- The reduced thickness portion is frangible.
- A conductor plated on a frangible substrate.
- The frangible nut is captured in a blast container.
- A frangible or breakaway valve for use in a flexible tube.
- A frangible flange secures the shank and rod to the spider.
- A second frangible bearing is placed in engagement with the ball.
- A frangible wall separates the reservoir from the elongated tube.
- A frangible member must be destroyed in order to remove the device.
- A container is provided for housing a frangible capsule and a porous carrier.
- The guns have special kind of frangible bullets that are designed not to pierce the skin of an airplane.
- Assembly Bill 2881, sponsored by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would ban the possession and use of "frangible" ammunition.
- It is a place so tranquil, so steeped in frangible scenes of beauty, it defies the popular cobwebs of conflict that seem not so long ago.
- DOLAN: Well, first of all, if you're using a conventional projectile, which -- now we have what's what are called frangible bullets, which will not penetrate the fuselage.
- The teams use Remington 700-class bolt-action rifles, equipped with .223 - and. 243-caliber ammunition that is extremely frangible, meaning that the bullets break up inside the deer's body and don't pass through, possibly endangering a human nearby.
- "frangible" ammunition;, sponsored by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would outlaw gun shows on public property;, sponsored by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would allow the State Police to ban any firearm they deem "unsafe" at any time;, sponsored by State Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (D-3), would prohibit the sale use or possession of .50 caliber firearms;, sponsored by State Assemblyman Clifford Crouch (R-107), provides for banning certain
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