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GUN SYNCHRONIZER

Specialty Definition: GUN SYNCHRONIZER

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Adjusts interconnecting control mechanisms of gun to synchronize gun with gunners sight (telescope or range finder) and fire control computer: Lifts gun to work stand, using hoist, and connects electrical and hydraulic lines to power sources. Inserts borescope in muzzle of gun, and telescope and level in breech. Moves controls to level position of gun. Adjusts gunners quadrant to synchronize quadrant with gun at level position. Sets eccentrics within control mechanism in position level with gun and quadrant. Bolts control arm of ballistics computer to sighting adjustment controls. Sights through range finder and moves controls to align cross hairs of range finder on specified target. Looks through borescope in gun to verify alignment of gun bore on target. Adjusts eccentrics, and controls to regulate flow of electrical impulse into control instruments, to align gun and sight on specified target. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GUN SYNCHRONIZER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-n-n-o-r-r-s-u-y-z"

-3 letters: synchronizer.

-4 letters: chirurgeons, synchronize.

-5 letters: chirurgeon, insurgency, renouncing, scroungier, scunnering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GUN SYNCHRONIZER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 55 4E      53 59 4E 43 48 52 4F 4E 49 5A 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010101 01001110 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001110 01001001 01011010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#90 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 004E      0053 0059 004E 0043 0048 0052 004F 004E 0049 005A 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4155482535948374252494843603952

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2. Orthography
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