Rail-gun
Rail-gun, railgun or rail gun may refer to:
- Railway gun, a large caliber artillery piece mounted on a railcar for rail mobility
- Railgun, an entirely electrical gun which uses a homopolar motor to accelerate projectiles
- Coilgun, an entirely magnetic gun which uses a linear motor to accelerate projectiles
- Helical railgun, combines the railgun and the coilgun
- Benchrest rifle, also known as a rail gun, a type of rifle that is built into a machine rest.
- List of electromagnetic projectile devices in fiction, for a list of fictional electromagnetic acceleration guns or "railguns"
- A Certain Scientific Railgun, a spin-off manga and anime series
- Mikoto Misaka, also known as "Railgun", protagonist of the spin-off series and a character from A Certain Magical Index series of light novels and anime.
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