discarding petal
discarding petal
[‚di¦skärd·iŋ ′ped·əl] (ordnance)
A part of a discarding sabot that is composed of a base and attached pieces, or petals, which surround the core, and are peeled back under centrifugal and aerodynamic forces and discarded just in front of the gun muzzle.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.