REPRESENTATIVE In military map reading, fraction whose numerator bears to the denominator the same proportion that a distance on the map bears to the distance on the ground it represents. The numerator must always be 1, and the denominator is expressed in similar units.
A circular steel gauge used in inspecting shot and shells. They are made of two sizes for each calibre, the larger being a trifle more and the smaller a trifle less in diameter than the true calibre of the projectile. All shot received must pass through the larger gauge, but are rejected, if they pass through the smaller.
Rcv.nao Pam— A discharge of musketry by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand; also a fire where the axis of the piece is parallel or nearly so, with the ground or water, and the projectile rebounds over the surface in a succession of ricochets.
Rome Marches used in peace to conduct a body of troops from one station or post to another. In time of war they are used for the purpose of assembling the fractions of an army on its base of operations of conducting troops through a country where there is no enemy.
Russuas SAP.— A gallery without sheathing, the top of which is cut in the form of an arch. The earth is carried
to the rear as in the case of the deep sap. Ventilation boles are arranged here and there, permitting the location of the arched roof in relation to the surface of the earth as the work progresses.
flauzwr.— In fortification, that which points outward from the interior of any work. For example, the central angle of a bastion, pointing toward the enemy, is a salient angle. Also, in map reading, a projection from the side of a hill or mountain, running out and down from the main feature. SALVO.— Concentrated fire from a greater or less number of pieces of artillery. Salvos, corresponding to volleys of musketry, are frequently fired by way of salutes over the graves of officers at the time of burial.
Summer Saari car-- The service embracing the institution of all practicable sanitary measures to the end that the fighting forces suffer no depletion in strength, the temporary rare and professional treatment of the sick and wounded and their transportation and the supply of the necessary sanitary equipment.