Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the study of the dynamics of projectiles.
- adj. Of or relating to the study of the internal action of firearms.
- adj. Of or relating to projectiles, their motion, or their effects.
- idiom. go ballistic Slang To become very angry or irrational.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to ballistics, or the scientific construction and use of projectiles.
Wiktionary
- adj. Or relating to ballistics.
- adj. Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power
- adj. Very angry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
- adj. Pertaining to ballistics{2}, or to a projectile in a gravitational field.
- adj. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase go ballistic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity
Etymologies
- From ballista.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
I am contemplating the purchase of a new Tikka T3 Hunter in either .243 or .270.
“What has the Reichwhiners going ballistic is that President Obama jumped to immediate, decisive, action.”
Think Progress » Fox News: Guantanamo Bay may open its doors to Haitian refugees.
“I use the win ballistic silver tip, i think 95 gr.”
“My go to gun most of the year, takes everything from small varmints with 55grain ballistic tips to big game with 95 grain partitions.”
what is your favorite gun that you own and why is it your favorite.
“The reduction in ballistic performance was a different kind of improvement in my mind.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For example, we propose to use Ukraine's expertise in ballistic missiles for commercial projects and scientific research.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ballistic’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 322 more...
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Thrown Away Words
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snollygoster, microcopy, microreader, microreproduction, record changer, portapak, pantdress, pocket-handkerchief, poke bonnet, vitamin g, lantern pinion, frutescent and 10 more...
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cool words
just for hahas
axiom, axle, masonry, ballistic, infused, vibrancy, twist, twisted, aspect, karmafective, electricity, a lot and 7 more...
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Cute words. :D
the name says it all ^
warble, fuzzy, foofy, buff, cuddle, ding dong, clumsy, ballistic, balling, pudgy, zing, doll and 4 more...
darqueau the ballistic quest for technical proficiency has always found its target... Apr 22, 2009