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Ballistics

//bəˈlɪst.ɪks// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable
  2. 2
    the science of flight dynamics wordnet
  3. 3
    the trajectory of an object in free flight wordnet

Etymology

From ballista + -ics.

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