recoil
反冲力,后坐力,反冲,后退
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Definitions
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- : to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- : to spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm.
- : to spring or come back; react: Plots frequently recoil upon the plotters.
- : Physics. to undergo a change in momentum as a result either of a collision with an atom, a nucleus, or a particle or of the emission of a particle.
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- : an act of recoiling.
- : the distance through which a weapon moves backward after discharging.
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Examples
Instead, he developed a new concept based on the energy recoil of tendons and ligaments.
When looking for signs of electrons recoiling as other particles slammed into them, the team observed extra recoils of electrons at low energies, well beyond the number predicted by standard physics.
In their new analysis, the physicists examined electronic recoils in the first year’s worth of XENON1T data.
They used to treat these “electronic recoils” as background noise, and indeed many of these events are caused by mundane sources such as radioactive lead and krypton isotopes.
Your foulness no longer surprises you, but you have realized its power when you encounter clean soldiers and you both recoil.
“Technically, all guns have recoil,” Steve told me via email.
I noticed when watching Biathlon that the guns seem to have no recoil when fired.
Erupting into spontaneous song and having strangers fully embrace it rather than recoil?
These women do not like being beaten, and I literally recoil whenever I hear others blame them for staying.
Danton began to recoil from the gulf opening before him, and wished to return to alliance with the Girondists.
A slight tremor passed over the whiteness of her face; he took it for the vibration of some spiritual recoil.
May this blood upon those who are really guilty of those crimes.