single-shot

[ sing-guhl-shot ]

adjective

1. (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single-shot¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

The show is technically a sequel to the 2021 movie “Boiling Point,” a single-shot movie about one catastrophic night at a fancy restaurant.

From New York Times

"Our single-shot and compact system provides a viable pathway for the widespread adoption of this type of imaging to empower applications requiring advanced imaging," said Capasso.

From Science Daily

Foot soldiers in the past had fought with single-shot rifles that could not fire very straight or very far and with crude short-range cannon.

From Literature

They have a hefty track record of showing how thermal bolometers can be used as ultrasensitive detectors, and they just demonstrated in an April 10 Nature Electronics paper that bolometer measurements can be accurate enough for single-shot qubit readout.

From Science Daily

In our very first experiments, we found these bolometers accurate enough for single-shot readout, free of added quantum noise, and they consume 10,000 times less power than the typical amplifiers -- all in a tiny bolometer, the temperature-sensitive part of which can fit inside of a single bacterium,' says Aalto University Professor Mikko Möttönen, who heads the QCD research group.

From Science Daily