Mortar Fire

  

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Mortar Fire

Definition: Mortar Fire

Mortar Fire

Noun

1. Artillery fire delivered by a mortar.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Mortar Fire

English words defined with "mortar fire": countermortar firezone fire. (references)

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Photo Album: Mortar Fire

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Map of Fort Jackson, Louisiana, showing the effects of indirect mortar fire by mortar boats positioned by Coast Surveyors working with Captain David Dixon Porter. This map was printed as a commemorative copy on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the formation of the Survey of the Coast. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mortar Fire

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

They also attempt to locate the source of incoming mortar fire before responding; however, inaccurate mortar and artillery fire killed civilians. (references)

Congo

The most severe of these clashes occurred between June 5 and 11, 2000, during which time both forces shelled the city with artillery and mortar fire, destroying homes and much of the city's infrastructure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: Mortar Fire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-m-o-r-r-r-t"

-1 letter: terraform.

-2 letters: aeriform, reformat, retiform.

-3 letters: armoire, armorer, farrier, firearm, foamier, forearm, formate, marrier, rotifer, tarrier, triform.

-4 letters: artier, fairer, farmer, femora, firmer, foamer, fomite, format, former, forrit, framer, frater, imaret, irater, maftir, marrer, mirror, mortar, rafter, reform, remora, retrim, rioter, roamer, roarer, termor, terror, tremor, trimer.

-5 letters: afire, afore, afrit, after, aimer, airer, amort.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-m-o-r-r-r-t"
 

+2 letters: terraforming.

 

+3 letters: interferogram, reformatories.

 

+4 letters: interferograms, refractometric, retransforming.

 

+5 letters: irreformability, refractometries.

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Alternative Orthography: Mortar Fire


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

4D 6F 72 74 61 72      46 69 72 65

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

    

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

01001101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0072 0074 0061 0072      0046 0069 0072 0065

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

478184866784240758471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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