ARTILLERY FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artillery fire mean? 

• ARTILLERY FIRE (noun)
  The noun ARTILLERY FIRE has 1 sense:

1. fire delivered by artillery

  Familiarity information: ARTILLERY FIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTILLERY FIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fire delivered by artillery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

artillery fire; cannon fire

Hypernyms ("artillery fire" is a kind of...):

fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artillery fire"):

cannonade; drumfire (intense and continuous artillery fire)

high-angle fire (fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range)

mortar fire (artillery fire delivered by a mortar)

zone fire (artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations)