1. projectile - Noun
2. projectile - Adjective
3. projectile - Adjective Satellite
Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in motion compounded from equable horizontal and from naturally accelerated downward [motions], it describes a semiparabolic line in its movement. Galileo Galilei
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. William Gibson
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Ambrose Bierce
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. Henry Rollins
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour. Jesse Ventura