ballistics

Noun

Meaning

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ballistic trajectory aeronautics armory cannon artillery ammunition armament experimenter gunnery battering musketry archery amnio cannonry forensics
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Hypernyms

flight kinetics dynamics trajectory

Examples

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel? Adam Savage

A little bullet pays off so much in wound ballistics. That is what people who choose these weapons know. James Fallows

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. John Sherman Cooper

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! Nathan Myhrvold

At higher speeds, such as in ballistics, the shape is highly distorted and does not resemble a parabola. Source: Internet

Col. Chamberlin recognized that many theories have been advanced in wound ballistics. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ballistically ballistician ballisticity ballistite ballistocardiac ballistocardiogram