Ballistic Definition

bə-lĭstĭk
adjective
Of or relating to the study of the dynamics of projectiles.
American Heritage
Of or connected with ballistics.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the study of the internal action of firearms.
American Heritage
Of the motion and force of projectiles.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to projectiles, their motion, or their effects.
American Heritage

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Ballistic

Origin of Ballistic

  • From Latin ballista (“a military siege engine for throwing stones”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From ballista

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ballistic Sentence Examples

  • The following exercises will show the application of the ballistic table.

  • Of course her father went ballistic when he found out she was pregnant and tried to find Josh, but he didn't have any luck.

  • He showed that there was, on the whole, a fair agreement between the values determined ballistic ally and those given by the formula B = 871-F.

  • These functions, T, S, D, 1, A, are shown numerically in the following extract from an abridged ballistic table, in which the velocity is taken as the argument and proceeds by an increment of 10 f/s; the column for p is the one determined by experiment, and the remaining columns follow by calculation in the manner explained above.

  • A small coil of fine wire, connected in series with a ballistic galvanometer, is placed in the field, with its windings perpendicular to the lines of force, and then suddenly reversed or withdrawn from the field, the integral electromotive force being twice as great in the first case as in the second.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to ballistic using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

BBABAL

Words Ending With

CICTIC

Unscrambles

ballistic

Words Starting With B and Ending With C

Starts With B & Ends With CStarts With BA & Ends With CStarts With B & Ends With IC

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With B9 Letter Words Ending With C