Stryker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Strykers
Etymology: * (surname):
* (gurney): Genericization of a trademark. From the name of the Stryker Corporation, which manufactured several gurneys in this style. From the name of the founder of the company, Homer Stryker.
* (armoured vehicle): Originating from 2002, named for two Americans who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: PFC Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II, and SP4 Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.
Senses: examples: text: 1973, Modern hospital: Volume 120; Volume 120, link
Because we feel that a stretcher should be more than a means of patient transport, we don't offer a standard Stryker stretcher.
text: The handles on the Stryker stretcher can by extended after a locking button has been pressed
ref: 2007, Helmut Strasser, Assessment of the ergonomic quality of hand-held tools and computer input devices, page 269:
text: Of course—anyone would expect the rest to happen—I wake up in the Sea-Clift EMS track, strapped to a yellow Stryker stretcher, shirtless and jacketless, covered with a thin pink blanket, my feet toward the back door
ref: 2007, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land, page 463:
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
related: word: stryker
hypernyms: gurney
glosses: A modern, heavy-duty, full-featured gurney, typically heavily padded and having yellow legs.
examples: text: The Army has named its 8-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle III the Stryker.
The Army will field its first Stryker variant, an infantry combat vehicle, at Anniston, Ala.
ref: 2002 July, “Wheeled tanks start rolling”, in Popular Mechanics, page 32:
text: The vast majority of Interim Force activities are swirling around the “Stryker” Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV) family from the General Motors–GDLS Defense Group joint venture. The IAV is a heavier, more modern version of the eight-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) III from GM of Canada that is used by the Marine Corps and Canadian forces.
ref: 2002, “Interim force armour activities”, in Armed Forces journal international, volume 139:
text: 2004, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Improved operational testing and evaluation: and methods of combining test information for the Stryker family of vehicles and related Army systems, link
Test Process The Army's interim armored combat vehicle, now called the Stryker, is in the latter stages of development.
text: The lower tactical Internet connects 75 percent or more of Stryker combat vehicles.
ref: 2005, Daniel Gonzales, Network-centric operations case study: the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, page 31:
text: These and most variants of the eight-wheel Stryker combat vehicles have a .50-cal on a remotely controlled mount. Due to the improvised explosive device (IED) and sniper threat, these vehicles' weapons stations are heavily armored.
ref: 2011, Gordon Rottman, Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns, page 69:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: LAV III
LAV
hypernyms: LAV
light armoured vehicle
light armored vehicle
AV
armoured vehicle
armored vehicle
armoured car
armored car
armour
armor
8x8
glosses: An eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.
Derived terms: sense: armoured vehicle
word: Stryker brigade
sense: armoured vehicle
alt: SBCT
word: Stryker brigade combat team