ballistics
The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum…The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets.
» Have you seen the results of the ballistics test?
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1 senses(uncountable)The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets.
Ballistik
балли́стикаballístika
балі́стикаbalístyka
- the science of flight dynamics
- the trajectory of an object in free flight
Examples
2 sentencesHave you seen the results of the ballistics test?
According to the ballistics report, this gun can't be the murder weapon.
Translations
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Origin
From ballista + -ics. By surface analysis, ballistic + -s.From ballista + -ics. By surface analysis, ballistic + -s.
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Synonyms
1 synonyms- the trajectory of an object in free flight:ballistic trajectory
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.