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headspace [′hed‚spās]
(ordnance)
Distance between the face of the locked bolt or breechblock of a gun and some specified point in the chamber; in guns using rimless bottlenecked cartridges, the space between the boltface and a specified point on the shoulder of the cartridge.


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As a result, those bolts develop headspace problems as they're fired.
It's kind of sitting back and waiting for your headspace to open up so you're well enough in your mind to be able to accept what the elders give you.
More recently, detection limits for selected Aroclors determined by liquid-liquid partitioning followed by headspace solid-phase microex-traction and gas chromatography atomic emission detection are reported as 0.
 
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