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Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

archeryballistic trajectorygunnerymissilerymusketryrocketry

Example

More examples

"According to the ballistics report, this gun can't be the murder weapon."

Etymology

From ballista + -ics.

Related phrases

ballistic conductionballistic fingerprintingexternal ballisticsinternal ballisticsterminal ballisticstransition ballistics

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