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adjective

Ballistic adj.

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

Pertaining to ballistics (2), or to a projectile in a gravitational field.

Frenzied; very angry; used mostly in the phrase go ballistic. (Colloq.)

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.

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Etymology of 'Ballistic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ballistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... this, too. It had been controversial for a time. After the pushpots and their jatos had served as the first two stages of a multiple-rocket aggregation, the Platform carried rocket fuel as the third stage. But the Platform was a highly special ballistic problem. It would take off almost horizontally—a great advantage in fueling matters. This was practical simply because the Platform could be lifted far beyond effective air resistance, and already have considerable speed before its own ...

— Space Platform • Murray Leinster

... them for pits, scales, laminations, forging cracks, etc., in determining the chemical analysis of specimens taken from different parts, in determining the physical qualities of specimens taken longitudinally and transversely, and the ballistic test. Specifications for these different tests are constantly undergoing change, and it would be impossible to state, with exactness, what the requirements are or will be in the near future. The ballistic test ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various