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rail gun

rail gun is the alternative spelling of railgun.

Meaning of railgun

Noun

railgun (plural railguns)

  1. An electromagnetic gun that uses a large electrical current to propel a projectile down a track of two parallel conductive rails.
  2. A railway gun.
  3. A benchrest rifle.

Forms of rail gun

pluralrail guns

Questions about rail gun

What is rail gun the alternative spelling of?
Rail gun is the alternative spelling of railgun.

Words near rail gun in the dictionary

  1. rail freight
  2. rail gauge
  3. rail gauges
  4. rail grinder
  5. rail grinders
  6. rail gun
  7. rail guns
  8. rail hail
  9. rail head
  10. rail heads
  11. rail joint

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rail gun (page history and authors); railgun (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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