Crossword clues for ballistics
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 the earth's gravitational field.
3. The study of the characteristics of a cartridge fired from a firearm, and of the processes occurring during the discharge of a firearm.
4. The division within a police department which studies the characteristics of cartridges fired from a firearm; the ballistics department. The characteristics of the weapons and bullets fired may be used as evidence in criminal investigations.
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 *gwele- (1) "to throw, reach," in extended senses "to pierce" (cognates: Sanskrit apa-gurya "swinging," balbaliti "whirls, twirls;" Greek bole "a throw, beam, ray," belemnon "dart, javelin," belone "needle"). Here, too, probably belongs Greek ballizein "to dance," literally "to throw one's body," ancient Greek dancing being highly athletic.
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 or rockets.
WordNet
n. the trajectory of an object in free flight [syn: ballistic trajectory]
the science of flight dynamics
Wikipedia
Ballistics is the science of mechanics that deals with the launching, flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, gravity bombs, rockets, or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.
A ballistic body is a body with momentum which is free to move, subject to forces, such as the pressure of gases in a gun or a propulsive nozzle, by rifling in a barrel, by gravity, or by air drag.
A ballistic missile is a missile only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight, whose trajectory is subsequently governed by the laws of classical mechanics, in contrast (for example) to a cruise missile which is aerodynamically guided in powered flight.
Ballistics may refer to:
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 across seven different tracks in various leagues against other competitors on high-speed hoverbikes.
The game was Grin's first to be released, and featured the first version of their Diesel game engine. Grin worked closely with NVIDIA to incorporate then new technologies into the game, and was marketed as one of the flagship titles for the GeForce 3 Series of graphics cards.
Critical reaction was generally favourable, with reviewers being impressed by the beauty of the graphics and the thrilling depiction of speed. They were however, slightly disappointed with the shallow nature of the gameplay. A newer version of the arcade game was released in 2003, incorporating motion simulator technology into the arcade cabinet.
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.