Definition of Bourrelet. Meaning of Bourrelet. Synonyms of Bourrelet

- A bourrelet is a portion of an elongated artillery projectile that is used in conjunction with the projectile's driving band, or rotating band, to stabilize...
- . The chaperon is worn in style A with just a patch of the bourrelet showing (right of centre) through the cornette wound round it (practical for painting...
- and conservatively religious. The escoffion was sometimes called the bourrelet, a word that originally simply means something stuffed or padded (rembourré...
- its flight. The s**** is stabilized for yaw in the barrel by a smaller bourrelet band near the front of the projectile. This band keeps the projectile...
- increases in larger calibers. Steel artillery projectiles may have a forward bourrelet section machined to a diameter slightly smaller than the original land-to-land...
- Christine de Pisan presents a book to Queen Isabeau, who wears a jewelled bourrelet. Christine wears a divided hennin covered in white cloth. Isabella of...
- cytoplasm not used in ascospore formation) that is surrounded by the "bourrelet" (the thickened tissue near the top of the ascus). Typically, a single...
- Bull's Space Research Corporation for the GC-45 howitzer replaces the bourrelet with small nubs, which both tightly fit into lands of the barrel. Guns...
- Desensitized high explosive bursting charge • 4. – Base-fuse (set with delay to explode inside the target) • 5. – Bourrelet (front) and driving band (rear)...
- 2007 at the Wayback Machine, L'Express, 22 August 2007 (in French) Un bourrelet relance le débat sur la retouche d'images Archived 30 September 2007 at...