ballistic

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity“ballistic missile”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Ballistic \Bal*lis"tic\, a.

1.Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. [1913 Webster]

2.Pertaining to ballistics[2], or to a projectile in a gravitational field. [1913 Webster +PJC]

3.frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase

go ballistic. [Colloq.] [PJC]

Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it. [1913 Webster]

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