Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the study of the dynamics of projectiles.
- adjective Of or relating to the study of the internal action of firearms.
- adjective Of or relating to projectiles, their motion, or their effects.
- idiom (go ballistic) To become very angry or irrational.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to ballistics, or the scientific construction and use of projectiles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
- adjective Pertaining to ballistics{2}, or to a projectile in a gravitational field.
- adjective colloq. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase go ballistic.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Or relating to
ballistics . - adjective comparable Or relating to
projectiles moving under their ownmomentum , air drag,gravity and sometimesrocket power - adjective comparable, slang Very
angry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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I use the win ballistic silver tip, i think 95 gr.
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The reduction in ballistic performance was a different kind of improvement in my mind.
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The reduction in ballistic performance was a different kind of improvement in my mind.
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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. 2009
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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. 2010
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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. 2009
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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. 2009
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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. 2009
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I use the win ballistic silver tip, i think 95 gr.
darqueau commented on the word ballistic
the ballistic quest for technical proficiency has always found its target...
April 22, 2009