Spent vs Microstamping - What's the difference?
spent | microstamping |
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
(spend)
tense
The use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 24, author=, title=An Opportunity for Mr. Schwarzenegger, work=New York Times
, passage=The measure would make California the first state to require that all new semiautomatic weapons be equipped with technology known as microstamping , which imprints microscopic markings as a gun fires. }}
As an adjective spent
is consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.As a verb spent
is (spend).As a noun microstamping is
the use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.spent
English
Adjective
(-)- a spent cartridge
Verb
(head)Statistics
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
- en spent situasjon - a tense situation
References
* ----microstamping
English
(wikipedia microstamping)Noun
(-)citation