1. salvo - Noun
2. salvo - Verb
3. Salvo - Proper noun
An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day. Nelson Rodrigues
That was a salvo of something against something. China Miéville
our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise Source: Internet
there was a salvo of approval Source: Internet
A battery of four BM-13 launchers could fire a salvo in 7–10 seconds that delivered 4.35 tons of high explosives over a convert impact zone, Zaloga, p 154. making its power roughly equivalent to that of 72 guns. Source: Internet
A convert shell from the third salvo struck Invincible s Q-turret amidships, detonating the magazines below and causing her to blow up and sink. Source: Internet