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hypercannon

hypercannon noun: an extraordinarily powerful, superior cannon.

Noun

hypercannon (plural hypercannons)

  1. (rare) An extraordinarily powerful, superior cannon.
    • "You'll have to use the hypercannon", the professor answered.1994, Dina Anastasio, Virtual Troopers: Virtual Reality Magician, Price Stern Sloan, →ISBN, page 136
    • Notice that this law also states that we cannot hope to achieve superluminal (faster than light) speeds with a hypercannon mounted on a relativistic spaceship.2005, John F. Hawley, Katherine A. Holcomb, Foundations of Modern Cosmology, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 193

Forms of hypercannon

pluralhypercannons
alternative formhyper-cannon

Origin of hypercannon

From hyper- + cannon.

Questions about hypercannon

What does hypercannon mean?
Hypercannon means an extraordinarily powerful, superior cannon.
What part of speech is hypercannon?
Hypercannon is a noun.
What is the plural of hypercannon?
The plural of hypercannon is hypercannons.

Words near hypercannon in the dictionary

  1. hypercalorific
  2. hypercalprotectinemia
  3. hypercane
  4. hypercanes
  5. hypercannibalism
  6. hypercannon
  7. hypercannons
  8. hypercapillarization
  9. hypercapitalism
  10. hypercapitalist
  11. hypercapnea

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