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Definition of Target practice
1. Noun. Practice in shooting at targets.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Target Practice
Literary usage of Target practice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"... target practice; Trap shooting Shooting, Military Accuracy of fire; the
principal causes affecting the fire of big guns. HJ Jones. ..."
2. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1907)
"... States battleship "Georgia," was killed in performance of duty on July 15 by
a powder explosion in a turret of the above hip during target practice. ..."
3. The Downfall of Spain: Naval History of the Spanish-American War by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1900)
"... so much greater than those which have been used in target practice, that this
difference would account for a reduction of from thirty to sixty per cent, ..."
4. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney (1918)
"[Ammunition for target practice, etc.] That the troops of the militia encamped
at any military post or camp of the United States may be furnished such ..."
5. The Theory of Errors and Method of Least Squares by William Woolsey Johnson (1890)
"§V.] VALUE OF h IN target practice. The Most Probable Value of h in Target
Practice^ 73. We have seen in Art. 55 that in target practice the probability of ..."
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