(n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
(n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(2) The move reduces the chances of a repeat of the Bombardier row, where the company's Derby factory missed out to a German rival for a £1.4bn government contract.
(3) At a press conference Bombardier said an alert had gone off for one of the subsystems during the flight, without providing details.
(4) This investment reflects our commitment, and that of train operators, to put passengers at the heart of everything we do, and will improve journeys and target congestion.” Richard Hunter, Bombardier’s UK managing director, said: “We are thrilled to have won this important contract.
(5) He added in the letter that Bombardier had "significant opportunities" to win more train manufacturing dealsas the government had maintained funding for upgrades to the rail network and the London Underground.
(6) War Debts (extracts) by Lance Bombardier Stephen North You wonder how they miss you to be honest, throwing stuff over the walls.
(7) A day before the stretched Dreamliner flight, Bombardier successfully flew its CSeries jetliner, kicking off a renewed effort to sell the all-new narrow-body plane amid questions about its development cost.
(8) "It flew very well," said Bombardier chief test pilot Chuck Ellis.
(9) Under European Union rules member states are forbidden from showing domestic bias in selecting the winners of government-funded contracts, which exposed the UK government to sharp criticism when the £1.4bn contract for carriages on the London Thameslink route went to Siemens of Germany rather than Bombardier, whose Derby factory is the UK's last remaining train manufacturing plant.
(10) It had used Siemens’ trains for the franchise since privatisation and had placed an order for more of its Desiro trains, in what appeared to be another defeat for Bombardier in a long-running battle with the German industrial group.
(11) However, First announced on winning the franchise that it would return those trains after two years for a new fleet, which has now been ordered from Bombardier.
(12) Captain Johnny Mercer, Fire Support Team Commander D Battery, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, said: "Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler was in my eyes the perfect soldier.
(13) The picture is not all rosy: the boss of train manufacturer Bombardier reiterated in Berlin that the future of its Derby plant, and 1,600 jobs, could not be guaranteed without new orders.
(14) He lobbied Bombardier not to quit Britain after losing a contract to build new railway rolling stock to Germany's Siemens.
(15) The train had a sleek silver and gold exterior, but the inside was unnervingly familiar: the Electrostar carriages, built by Bombardier Transportation in Derby, are also used by various British operators.
(16) The defensive spray of the bombardier beetle Stenaptinus insignis is ejected in quick pulses (at about 500 pulses per second) rather than as a continuous stream.
(17) He served as a wing bombardier with the rank of lieutenant in the 12th Air Force, and flew 60 combat missions from Corsica.
(18) Its commander was Tibbets, the group bombardier was Ferebee and the unit's function – although only Tibbets then knew it – was to deliver the A-bomb.
(19) Prior to joining Pearson, she worked at chemicals group ICI and engineering firm Bombardier.
(20) A RAAF P3 Orion departed around 9.15am and is now in the search area.A second RAAF P3 Orion departed around 11.15am and an ultra long range Bombardier Global Express jet departed around 11.30am.
Gyroscopic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presented X-ray gyroscope enables any member of the dental staff authorized to take radiograms to check the exposure time of the X-ray examination unit for its accuracy in a simple manner.
(2) In May 2013, scientists discovered that one of the gyroscopic wheels – known as "reaction wheels" – that kept the probe pointing in the right direction had stopped working and, try as they might, Nasa engineers could not restart it.
(3) 4 Whirled in motion The iPhone 5's innards also include an M7 "motion coprocessor" designed to collect data from its accelerometer, gyroscope and compass.
(4) As well as GPS sensors, these contain accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes, to pick up extra information on impacts, jumps, changes of direction, acceleration and deceleration.
(5) Gyroscopic motion of adsorbed magnetoelectric dipoles is proposed as a possible physical mechanism accounting for the experimental observations.
(6) The Onewheel is essentially a single-wheeled Segway, which self-balances a wooden board around its rubber tyre using gyroscopes and accelerometers to produce a smooth ride.
(7) It works by tracking the speed and position of the user through gyroscopes and accelerometers built into the collar.
(8) Work in "clean rooms," where gyroscopes were assembled, was associated with the brain cancer excess but did not fully account for it.
(9) It contains an accelerometer and gyroscope and communicates with the system wirelessly.
(10) The next generation of smartwatches will employ additional technology including the accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, compass, heart-rate monitor, altimeter and an ambient light sensor, to name a few.
(11) Standing about 76cm tall, 91cm long and weighing 109kg, BigDog is an autonomous system powered by an engine and controlled by on-board computer system processing a series of sensors that monitor joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a gyroscope, LIDAR and a stereo vision system.
(12) Essentially, Android will now queue up sensory input to be processed in batches, which means that the central processor doesn’t need to be in a high-power state all the time to accept and process data from the phone’s sensors like the GPS, accelerometers and gyroscopes.
(13) In addition, a design experience that utilises the device capabilities, such as touch, gyroscope, and accelerometer, is becoming increasingly important in making the interaction with health content that much more immersive.
(14) In Samsung’s system the Note 4 will provide the sensors, including a compass, accelerometer and gyroscope for detecting head moment to produce the virtual reality effect.
(15) The latest comes from a California-based company, Hoverboard Technologies, which plans to release a device on 17 September that uses a central wheel that acts like a gyroscope to maintain balance, control direction and create a “floating feeling” for users.
(16) "Asked to change, the families have no lived experience of what this might feel like and, worse still, they know that these commands are accompanied by the dead weight of expectation that they can't change… The system is a costly gyroscope that spins around the families… [who are] stuck exactly where they are."
(17) It includes a gyroscope and a faster processor similar to that in the iPad.
(18) Low-power gyroscopes, which sense the angle at which a phone is being held, and accelerometers, which measure its movement, will help the phone guess what its user wants to do next.
(19) Right from the early days, there's always been a carnivalesque side to rave culture, from the free party sound systems with names like Circus Warp to the commercial UK raves with their bouncy castles, gyroscope rides, and merry-go-rounds.