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US
/bəˈɫɪstɪks/
]
[ UK /bɐlˈɪstɪks/ ]
[ UK /bɐlˈɪstɪks/ ]
NOUN
- the trajectory of an object in free flight
- the science of flight dynamics
How To Use ballistics In A Sentence
- She wasn't trained extensively in weaponry and ballistics, but it never really was hard to place the sound of a thermal explosive going off.
- Of course this looks way cool on film, especially in slow motion with squibs full of stage blood bursting explosively, and has therefore become an established idiom of fictional ballistics.
- The cartridge was designed to improve on the accuracy of and duplicate the ballistics of the .22 Magnum in a reloadable case.
- In 1940 Wilkinson began war work which involved mathematical and numerical work on ballistics.
- Ballistics was used in the criminal case to determine the gun's firing capacity.
- To equal black powder ballistics and pressures in the .45 Colt requires tiny little charges of most smokeless propellants.
- With the birth of civil and military aviation in the early 1900s, the focus of weather intelligence shifted from ballistics studies to aviation support.
- But an “aimable cluster” with superior ballistics, usually containing thirty-eight M69s in a finned casing, provided reasonable accuracy. Whirlwind
- He never really understood it emotionally; it was too wildly improbable; but as an intellectual concept he was able to accept it and use it, much later, in his first vague glimmerings of the science of ballistics: and the art of astrogation and ship maneuvering. Destiny Narrowly Avoided
- The ballistics model is First World War ballistics mathematics.