Tactical

Quick meaning: Tactical is an adjective meaning Of or relating to tactics.

Meaning

Of or relating to tactics.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to military operations that are smaller or more local than strategic ones.
2. Adroit, skilful or ingenious.
3. (computing) A combinator of proof tactics.
4. A private war reenactment event involving mock battles or skirmishes.
5. (firearms) Having a military appearance, typically with accessories such as a bipod, adjustable stock, detachable magazine or black coloration.

Example Sentences

tactical nuclear weapon

As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.

There are already hopes that actual tactical surprise has been attained, and we hope to furnish the enemy with a succession of surprises during the course of the fighting.

The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.

Word Forms

• tacticals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tactic, strategic, definite, mobility, mobile, technical.

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