Modern Military Dictionary

Download or read book القاموس العسكري الحديث : عربي-انجليزي، انجليزي-عربي written by Maher Kayyali and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every field of human activity develops its own terms and jargon, and the military field is no exception. This timely and necessary dictionary includes fundamental military terms, contemporary political and technological terms and jargon, military technique terms for the specialist, as well as words in allied subjects such as economics, law, statistics and sociology. The following are among the comprehensive number of military terms found in this dictionary: air reconnaissance, cluster bomb, estimated time of arrival, firing pin, intercontinental ballistic missile, logbook, metagon, orbital velocity, rate of fire, squadron, target allocation, verification fire, zero hour. In giving the equivalent Arabic terms, reference has been accorded to those terms agreed by the Arabic Academic Centres in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Baghdad and Rabbat, and to the widely accepted terms that have been coined by contemporary specialists and linguists.