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autosear

autosear is the alternative form of auto sear.

Meaning of auto sear

Noun

auto sear (plural auto sears)

  1. A device which allows for a closed-bolt self-loading firearm to reliably function in fully automatic fire by preventing the hammer or striker from falling until the bolt is fully in battery.

Forms of autosear

pluralautosears

Questions about autosear

What is autosear the alternative form of?
Autosear is the alternative form of auto sear.

Words near autosear in the dictionary

  1. autoscrolled
  2. autoscroller
  3. autoscrollers
  4. autoscrolling
  5. autoscrolls
  6. autosear
  7. autosears
  8. autosegment
  9. autosegmental
  10. autosegmentation
  11. autosegmentations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autosear (page history and authors); auto sear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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