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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Arthur left Fred to it and lay on his back in his own bedroom, reading a book about ballistics . ▪ Nuln is the home of the Imperial Gunnery School, where cannons are cast and artillerymen learn the arts of ballistics .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ballistics is a futuristic racing computer game developed by Grin and published by Xicat Interactive in 2001. Grin developed an arcade version of the game, released in 2002 featuring a unique reclined seating position cabinet by Triotech . Players race ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, "art of throwing; science of projectiles," with -ics + Latin ballista "ancient military machine for hurling stones," from Greek ballistes , from ballein "to throw, to throw so as to hit," also in a looser sense, "to put, place, lay;" from PIE root ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ballistics \Bal*lis"tics\, n. [Cf. F. balistique. See Ballista .] The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. --Whewell. 2. The science treating the motion of projectiles in flight, especially when they are in free fall within ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) The science of objects that predominately 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 ...
Usage examples of ballistics.
FBI ballistics expert Robert Frazier gave testimony about these tests on May 13, 1964.
His field was ballistics and firearms identification, and while he might have supplemented his findings with those from other fields, he was not qualified in spectrography, which entails expertise in physics and chemistry.
The expert opinion was more explicit at the next meeting, held the day of the Shaw-Gregory testimony and attended by those doctors, the wound ballistics experts, Specter, McCloy, and others.
Even the famously neutral Swiss sanctioned a series of military wound ballistics studies on cadavers in the late 1800s.
In Australia, as reported in the Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Wound Ballistics, the researchers took aim at rabbits.
It is tempting to surmise that a culture chooses its most reviled species for ballistics research.
Duncan MacPherson, a respected ballistics expert and consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department.
According to Lester Roane, chief engineer at the independent ballistics and body armor test facility H.
Australia, as in other Commonwealth nations, ballistics and blast testing on human cadavers is not allowed.
Once there, he headed straight for the ballistics lab on the third floor.
I ordered a ballistics test against the bullets that hit us, before finding the stolen weapons.
Perry launched into a flow of the technicalities used in ordnance and ballistics, and described with sweeps of his hands what would happen to a shell unlucky enough to be constrained by an inversed-cube type acceleration.
Exterior ballistics evolved by purely empirical means, trial and error.
The mathematics of ballistics and astronautics were simpler, rather than more complicated, than the ballistic formulae that he had once used in predicting fall of shot.
Smith and Wesson Model 19, from its position on the lamp table, to the powdering for prints, up until it was handed over to the ballistics men.