registration fire
- noun
- Specialized
:
fuego de registro
- The artillery unit used registration fire to ensure their subsequent barrage would hit the intended target.
Examples
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Before the main attack, commanders ordered registration fire to calibrate their guns.
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Accurate registration fire is crucial for successful battlefield operations.
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The troops initiated registration fire to gather data.
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Can you explain what registration fire involves?
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Before launching their main assault, the generals ordered registration fire to ensure their artillery was properly calibrated.
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To guarantee precision, the team conducted registration fire before engaging enemy positions.
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The officers emphasized the importance of registration fire in achieving accurate targeting during the military exercise.
How Realistic
- Specialized
171
2.1
- Specialized
4
4.5
- Specialized
12
3.9
45
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'registration' (adjusting/alignment) modifies 'fire' (artillery firing), so the phrase denotes firing undertaken to calibrate or obtain alignment data. This is a literal, technical noun–noun combination following regular composition patterns and would be inferable by a learner who knows both constituent meanings.
Etymology
The noun registration fire comes from the practice of firing a few test shots: the fire is the shooting and the registration is checking where those shots land so gunners can correct their aim. So, registration fire means those early shots used to get the right information and make later shooting hit the target.