Ballistic

Word BALLISTIC
Character 9
Hyphenation bal lis tic
Pronunciations /bəˈlɪs.tɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Ballistic"

What do we mean by ballistic?

Of or relating to the study of the dynamics of projectiles. adjective

Of or relating to the study of the internal action of firearms. adjective

Of or relating to projectiles, their motion, or their effects. adjective

(go ballistic) To become very angry or irrational. idiom

Pertaining to ballistics, or the scientific construction and use of projectiles.

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. adjective

Pertaining to ballistics{2}, or to a projectile in a gravitational field. adjective

Frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase go ballistic. adjective

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. adjective

Or relating to ballistics. adjective

Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power adjective

Very angry. adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity adjective

Or relating to ballistics.

Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power

Very angry.

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The word "ballistic" in example sentences

The effect, which we term ballistic spin resonance, is driven by the free motion of electrons that bounce at frequencies of tens of gigahertz in micrometre-scale channels of a two-dimensional electron gas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The reduction in ballistic performance was a different kind of improvement in my mind. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I use it for varmints with 70 grain ballistic tips (shoots them a little better than the lighter faster 55grainers) and use it for deer and such with 100 grain corelockts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My go to gun most of the year, takes everything from small varmints with 55grain ballistic tips to big game with 95 grain partitions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What has the Reichwhiners going ballistic is that President Obama jumped to immediate, decisive, action. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I use the win ballistic silver tip, i think 95 gr. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They had Prospect Street, which is the Hartford/West Hartford line, closed with a roadblock a half hour ago, and there are officers in ballistic vests peering into every passing car and walking in pairs up and down driveways, looking under tarpaulins in people's back yards and knocking on doors. ❋ Matociquala (2008)

It's that permenant wound cavity that bleeds an animal out, not the temporary wound cavity that looks so impressive in ballistic gelatin but doesn't do much when it comes to elastic animal tissues. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, we propose to use Ukraine's expertise in ballistic missiles for commercial projects and scientific research. ❋ Unknown (1994)

President Obama's ambition of bringing Russia in from the cold was graphically underlined when Iran announced that it had successfully launched its first home-built satellite into orbit, using a rocket that the West believes is part of its long-term ballistic missile programme. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The White House claims that its redesigned program, featuring sea and land-based missile interceptors, will offer "more effective defenses against more near-term ballistic missile threats" from Iran. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sin challenged the missile defense systems "being pushed under the pretext of responding to so-called ballistic missile developments by what they call 'rogue states'." ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was the third so-called ballistic return of the capsule with a space station crew. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such injuries referred to as ballistic trauma are “conventional” TBIs; they are easy to diagnose, because the shrapnel fragments leave entry wounds, and can be treated in a standard way: foreign bodies are removed from the brain, and the patient is given a type of drug called a calcium channel blocker, such as Amlodipine or Nifedipine, to prevent further damage to injured neurons. ❋ Dave (2008)

Until at last the conservative side does something actually interesting, from a bloggers point of view, and the left goes ballistic, which is also bloggable. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

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