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Grooving vs Rifling - What's the difference?

grooving | rifling |

As verbs the difference between grooving and rifling

is that grooving is while rifling is .

As nouns the difference between grooving and rifling

is that grooving is a groove; a long indentation while rifling is the act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

grooving

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A groove; a long indentation.
  • * 1842 , Chambers's Edinburgh journal (page 4)
    • It appears that moraines and groovings , exactly resembling those of the Alpine regions, are found in all those districts.

    rifling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

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