nondisappearing

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adjective

Being the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.

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Meanings

adjectivenondisappearing (not comparable)
  1. historicalnot comparablegovernmentBeing the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.

    12-inch gun-lift carriages, altered to nondisappearing.

    1902, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War (part 1, page 9)
    1 more example

    Allotments were made for the test of the gun-lift battery and the nondisappearing barbette carriages.

    1896, Fifth Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, page 15

Origin

From non- + disappearing.

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