Associations to the word «Cannonball»

Wiktionary

CANNONBALL, noun. (military) (artillery)
CANNONBALL, noun. A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a solid round shot; a ball.
CANNONBALL, noun. An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
CANNONBALL, noun. The result of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
CANNONBALL, noun. (slang) (figuratively) Something that moves fast.
CANNONBALL, noun. (tennis) a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
CANNONBALL, verb. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
CANNONBALL FUNGI, noun. Plural of cannonball fungus
CANNONBALL FUNGUS, noun. Any of the genus Sphaerobolus of fungi in the family Geastraceae, which discharge their spores with explosive force.
CANNONBALL PROBLEM, noun. (math) The challenge of proving that the only solution of the Diophantine equation :\(\sum_{n=1}^{N} n^2 = M^2\;\) with N > 1 is when N = 24 and M = 70.

Dictionary definition

CANNONBALL, noun. A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon.

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