ballisticadj.

Brit.

/bəˈlɪstɪk/, U.S.

/bəˈlɪstɪk/

Forms: 1700s– ballistic, 1800s– balistic (now nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ballisticus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin ballisticus (1644 in Phenomena ballistica , the title of a section in F. M. Mersenne Cogitata physico-mathematica) < classical Latin ballista ballista n. + -icus -ic suffix. Compare French balistique (1649 as †ballistique , in a French translation of Mersenne's work), Italian balistico (a1786). Compare earlier ballistics n.In sense 2b after French ballistique (1901 or earlier). With the form balistic compare the forms at ballista n., ballistics n., and the Romance parallels cited above.

a. Of or relating to the projection and flight of missiles, spec. bullets fired from guns; of or relating to the subject of ballistics.Recorded earliest in ballistic pendulum n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [adjective] > of or relating to projectile

trajectory1668

ballistic1764

1764 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. 8 335 (heading) The Quantity of the Air's resistance to Projectiles, and Bullets in particular, determined by Experiments on the Ballistic Pendulum.

?1790 T. May Poems on Var. Subj. 139 Hence clocks denoting times incessant course, Ballistic torments' all-destroying force.

1797 M. Bryan Compend. Syst. Astron. vi. 137 Not that I propose instructing you in the ballistic art, that being foreign to my purpose; but having spoken of a ball being projected from a cannon [etc.].

1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 75 530 The term..mangonel was generally applicable to balistic engines.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 194 Increasing the ballistic power of our weapons.

1930 Amer. Jrnl. Police Sci. 1 148 Ballistic Equipment, such as..Machine rest, for firing rifles and pistols from fixed positions.

1952 Sci. Monthly May 294/2 Ballistic experiments have shown that such a projectile makes a round crater even though it strikes at a considerable angle from the vertical.

1992 Police June 66/2 The..District Attorney's office realized the need to have a ballistic reconstruction performed to learn if the..shots..could be sequenced and matched to the various bullet holes and impact marks on the walls.

2000 I. B. Cohen in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers ii. 118 ENIAC was restricted in its original design by the mission of computing ballistic tables.

b. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of armour, a material, etc.: designed to offer protection against bullets or other projectiles; bulletproof. Also: designating the level of such protection offered (esp. in ballistic strength).

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1896 Sci. Amer. 12 Dec. 428/3 The back of the ballistic armor plate was broken out for a diameter of two feet around the hole.

1909 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 14 May The spalling..is said to be due to the severe treatment necessary to produce the high ballistic strength. The armor of the kind affected comes in plates weighing from fifteen to twenty-eight tons each.

1952 East Liverpool (Ohio) Rev. 11 Mar. 16/1 High-quality, heat-treated ballistic armor casting of low alloy steel for use on U.S. army tanks.

1987 Advertising Age (Nexis) 9 Feb. 38 The $495 bullet-resistant trench coat is being offered to civilians by the same folks who have sold ballistic clothing.

1997 J. Hawes Rancid Aluminium (1998) iv. 70 Chernenin sat in his office and looked down through the thick, ballistic glass, onto the foyer.

2006 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 30 Sept. (Citrus Times section) 8 He has..kept the car's ballistic strength with new windows that can deflect a .50-caliber bullet.

a. Of motion, a trajectory, etc.: able to be described in terms of the laws of ballistics, involving gravity, inertia, and the resistance of a medium. Of a projectile, device, etc.: displaying such motion. Also (in wider sense): designating motion or change, or its course, etc., initiated by a brief input of energy and continuing as a result of momentum.

ΚΠ

1843 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 8 105 An orbit coming nearly or quite in contact with the sun, and presenting the singular circumstance of the ballistic curve, so called with respect to the sun, in the same manner, as projectiles..on the surface of the earth.

1878 W. E. Ayrton & J. Perry in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 487 To obtain a galvanometric arrangement..sufficiently ballistic that the air damping should be almost inappreciable.

1950 I. Langmuir Phenomena, Atoms & Molecules xvii. 385 The number of atoms per unit area, σ, can be measured..by suddenly heating the filament..and observing the ballistic kick on a galvanometer, since every atom escapes as a positive ion.

1988 Philos. & Public Affairs 17 17 A ‘mid-course’ layer designed to destroy the warheads in their ballistic arc above the atmosphere.

1991 Compute Sept. 66/2 Turning electronic devices on and off subjects them to a power-on or ballistic surge.

2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1066/1 The seeds are dispersed by a ballistic mechanism.

2004 K. Nakamura & T. Harayama Quantum Chaos & Quantum Dots i. 7 In this situation electrons show ballistic rather than diffusive motions, namely, obey deterministic laws.

b. Physiology. Designating a muscular movement which is begun by a rapid muscle contraction but continues as a result of the momentum of the part being moved; relating to or involving such movement; spec. designating muscle stretching in which the posture is changed with an abrupt action.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement

extensive1646

abducent1649

peristaltic1652

metaleptic1656

spastic1822

spasmodic1836

ideomotor1854

idiomuscular1860

fibrillary1875

motor1878

myotatic1881

antergic1890

isometric1891

isotonic1891

neurogenic1901

synkinetic1901

ballistic1905

motoric1926

1905 Psychol. Rev. 12 262 This particular form of light, rapid, and sometimes repeated blow, Richer calls ‘ballistic’.

1941 E. B. Greene Measurem. Human Behav. xii. 382 The arm movements were ballistic, that is, without precise control after being initiated.

1962 Rev. Educ. Res. 32 525 De Vries..compared the effect of the static stretching procedures of Hatha Yoga with the more conventional ballistic methods of stretching.

1989 Jrnl. Zool. 219 160 Ballistic tongue projection in chamaeleontid lizards is a highly derived form of lingual feeding thought to have evolved from mechanisms still evident in other, generalized iguanians.

1994 Runner's World Feb. 76/1 The earliest form of stretching, called ‘ballistic stretching’, was abandoned several decades ago. Athletes who tried it found that the rapid bouncing into and out of positions caused muscle soreness and sometimes even muscle tears.

3. In figurative contexts. Out of control, haywire, berserk. Chiefly in to go ballistic slang (originally U.S.): to become wildly or explosively angry, to fly into a rage; (also) to become highly excited or enthusiastic; to intensify rapidly and esp. alarmingly.The specific reference in quot. 1966 is to the failure of a guided missile's guidance system, rendering it ‘ballistic’ (cf. sense 2a).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > be affected with violent emotion [verb (intransitive)]

ragea1400

to blow one's top1928

to go haywire1929

to pop (also blow) one's cork1938

to flip one's lid (also wig)1950

wig1955

to go ballistic1981

the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > to rage (of fury) [verb (intransitive)] > be or become furious

wedec1000

resea1250

ragea1400

rampc1405

rase1440

outragea1475

stampc1480

enragec1515

ournc1540

gry1594

fury1628

rampage1692

to stamp one's foot1821

to fire off1848

foam1852

fire1859

to stomp one's feetc1927

to spit chips1947

to spit cotton1947

to spit blood1963

to go ballistic1981

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging

aweddeOE

woodc1000

woodlyc1000

wildc1300

franticc1390

ramage1440

welling woodc1440

staringc1449

rammistc1455

rabious1460

horn-wood?a1500

rammisha1500

enragea1522

frenzic1547

wood-like1578

horn-mad1579

woodful1582

frenzicala1586

ragefula1586

rabid1594

ravening1599

ravenous1607

Pythic1640

exorbitant1668

frenziful1726

haggard-wild1786

frenzied1796

maenadic1830

berserk1867

up the wall1951

ballistic1981

1966 Chicago Tribune 19 July i. 12/2 The SAM has a limiting factor in its ability to change course. If it exceeds these limits in trying to turn, it goes ballistic... It generally explodes in the air.]

1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 114 He turned and stared intently..from black ballistic eyeballs.

1985 Washington Post 11 July a1/4 ‘Wickham went ballistic when he heard about the recommendation,’ one Pentagon executive said.

1988 G. H. W. Bush in N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. 17 I get furious. I go ballistic. I really do and I bawl people out.

1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 10 Sept. 43/3 Just after sunup..the ozone level goes ballistic.

1993 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 28 Dec. 1/1 The national media went ballistic over a claim..that Clinton had lovers.

1998 Lapidary Jrnl. Oct. 20 I went ballistic over the amazing patterns..and color found inside the rocks!

2000 C. Thayer Certain Slant of Light xxvii. 248 Boat belonged to the father of one of the kids. The dad was ballistic over the whole thing.

Compounds

ballistic camera n. now chiefly historical a camera designed for the precise photography of trajectories and other features of high velocity flight, using techniques such as high-speed multiple imaging, timed exposure with wide-angle lenses, and calibration against the night sky.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > scientific and technical

heliograph1848

revolver1876

spectrograph1884

photochronograph1891

photogrammeter1891

process camera1895

gun-camera1921

microcamera1928

phototimer1942

ballistic camera1945

monorail camera1958

1945 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 16 777 (heading) The ballistic cameras.

1947 Ann. Math. Statistics 18 213 Ballistic Cameras were used to determine horizontal x and y, and vertical z coordinates (all in feet) of an airplane traveling about 160 mph at an elevation of about 35,000 feet.

1969 Science 27 June 1513/1 A search for optical auroras produced by the beam pulses was conducted with..visual observers, photometers, and ballistic cameras.

ballistic electron emission microscopy n. Physics a technique in which a scanning tunnelling microscope tip is used to inject ballistic electrons into a sample consisting of at least two layers, in order to investigate the interface between the layers.

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1988 Sci. Amer. July 11/1 Ballistic-electron-emission microscopy can map the Schottky, an energy threshold at the critical metal-semiconductor interface on microelectronic devices.

1997 Surface Rev. & Lett. 4 307/1 The invention of ballistic electron emission microscopy..has opened up new possibilities for extending the spatial resolution capabilities of scanning probe techniques to the study of buried interfaces.

ballistic galvanometer n. a moving-coil galvanometer whose coil has a large moment of inertia and a slow swing, so that the instrument responds to the quantity of charge passed (rather than the size of the current) and is suitable for measuring very small currents.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > [noun] > measurement of galvanic currents > apparatus for > type of

thermo-galvanometer1867

tangent galvanometer1873

ballistic galvanometer1875

tangent1905

string-galvanometer1909

tangent compass-

1875 W. Thomson in Proc. Royal Soc. 23 445 Weber's method, by the aid of electromagnetic induction and a ‘ballistic galvanometer’ to measure it,..has been used in the investigation.

1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xliv. 736 An essential feature of a ballistic galvanometer is that the moving system shall not have moved from its zero position before the whole of the quantity to be measured has passed.

1975 W. R. Uttal Cellular Neurophysiol. & Integration ii. 17 In the ballistic galvanometer, the maximum deflection of the coil is proportional to the total amount of current that has flowed through the coil. The peak of the deflection is, therefore, a time integral of all the current produced by the driving voltage.

ballistic missile n. a missile which is powered (as a rocket) and guided only in the initial phase of its flight, thereafter falling freely towards its target, typically following a high, arching trajectory.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun]

missile1945

ballistic rocket1949

ballistic missile1950

I.C.B.M.1955

intercontinental ballistic missile1956

MRBM1960

1950 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 23 Dec. c3/1 There will likely be intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of being shot out of the atmosphere and descending meteor-like on a target.

1959 A. E. Puckett Guided Missile Engin. ii. 7 Ballistic missiles..follow trajectories determined primarily by initial velocity and gravity.

1989 R. Rohmer Red Arctic xi. 80 Look at..those hatches or covers, there are twelve on each side of the deck. They have to be launchers for ballistic missiles or for cruise missiles.

2006 Prospect Aug. 20/2 The proper way to deliver nuclear weapons is by a ballistic missile, a rocket.

ballistic nylon n. a tough synthetic fabric, originally used as a bulletproof or blast-proof material but now used for a variety of purposes where strength and durability are desirable, such as luggage, footwear, etc.

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1953 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 May 4/4 Armor Specialties also plans to use laminated ballistic nylon in explosive shields and demolition barriers for mining, construction and excavation work.

1972 Times 14 June 23/1 The bomb blanket..is made of ‘a specially designed ballistic nylon with fire resistant coating’ and is designed to contain the blast from home-made bombs.

1994 Canad. Tire Fall & Winter Catal. Fall 4/1 (advt.) Bauer Supreme Custom 1000 skates. Ballistic nylon upper, full-grain leather trim.

2001 Contact May 85/2 The biggest component is the bag, a real tough cookie in ballistic nylon and plenty of padding.

ballistic pendulum n. now chiefly historical an apparatus for determining the velocity of a projectile from the amount of deflection produced when it strikes a target that is free to oscillate.

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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > speed or direction as vector quality > device to measure or record velocity

ballistic pendulum1764

tachometer1810

velocimeter1842

velocity-measurer1850

gun-pendulum1867

the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > in the physical sciences > measurement of > instrument > for measuring velocity of projectiles

ballistic pendulum1764

gun-pendulum1867

registrar1872

1742 B. Robins New Princ. Gunnery i. 27 If a Bullet of a known Weight strikes the Pendulum, and the Vibration, which the Pendulum makes in consequence of the Stroke, be ascertained, the Velocity, with which the Ball moved, is thence to be known.]

1764 B. Martin Physico-ballistics x in Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. 8 335 (chapter title) The Quantity of the Air's resistance to Projectiles, and Bullets in particular, determined by Experiments on the Ballistic Pendulum.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §298 Robins' Ballistic Pendulum, a massive cylindrical block of wood cased in a cylindrical sheath of iron closed at one end and moveable about a horizontal axis.

1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 40 The ‘unit deflective charge’..is the weight of the explosive that has been found to deflect the pendulum of the Bureau of Mines ballistic pendulum to the same degree that the standard weight of..dynamite has deflected it in a previous test.

1998 G. I. Brown Big Bang iv. 39 The Trauzl test..was replaced around 1900 by the ballistic pendulum test.

ballistic rocket n. a rocket which is not guided after its initial propulsion phase; esp. a ballistic missile.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun]

missile1945

ballistic rocket1949

ballistic missile1950

I.C.B.M.1955

intercontinental ballistic missile1956

MRBM1960

1949 Jrnl. Amer. Rocket Soc. Dec. 165 We have traced the path from the unguided small rocket to the huge ballistic rocket.

1962 F. W. Mulley Polit. Western Defense iv. 45 An improved version of the German V2 ballistic rocket..is the standard equipment of the [Soviet Army's] tactical missile units.

2001 Grey Room Winter 40 The origins of radiosity may be found in the expensive problems presented when ballistic rockets reenter the earth's atmosphere.

ballistic trajectory n. the path taken by a projected body which is acted upon only by gravitational forces and the resistance of the medium through which it passes.

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1954 Royal Air Force Flying Rev. Dec. 16/2 Instead of plunging back to the ground on a ballistic trajectory (like the V-2), the dive would be terminated by means of automatic controls.

1991 New Yorker 2 Sept. 58/2 Others at Langley had begun to kick around the idea of sending a man into space on a ballistic trajectory.

2007 Flight Internat. (Nexis) 15 May The rocket-powered vehicle would accelerate to 14,900mph,..releasing its fly-back propellant-tank first stage and then continuing on a ballistic trajectory.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ballistic
释义	ballisticadj. Brit. /bəˈlɪstɪk/, U.S. /bəˈlɪstɪk/ Forms: 1700s– ballistic, 1800s– balistic (now nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ballisticus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin ballisticus (1644 in Phenomena ballistica , the title of a section in F. M. Mersenne Cogitata physico-mathematica) < classical Latin ballista ballista n. + -icus -ic suffix. Compare French balistique (1649 as †ballistique , in a French translation of Mersenne's work), Italian balistico (a1786). Compare earlier ballistics n.In sense 2b after French ballistique (1901 or earlier). With the form balistic compare the forms at ballista n., ballistics n., and the Romance parallels cited above. 1. a. Of or relating to the projection and flight of missiles, spec. bullets fired from guns; of or relating to the subject of ballistics.Recorded earliest in ballistic pendulum n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [adjective] > of or relating to projectile trajectory1668 ballistic1764 1764 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. 8 335 (heading) The Quantity of the Air's resistance to Projectiles, and Bullets in particular, determined by Experiments on the Ballistic Pendulum. ?1790 T. May Poems on Var. Subj. 139 Hence clocks denoting times incessant course, Ballistic torments' all-destroying force. 1797 M. Bryan Compend. Syst. Astron. vi. 137 Not that I propose instructing you in the ballistic art, that being foreign to my purpose; but having spoken of a ball being projected from a cannon [etc.]. 1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 75 530 The term..mangonel was generally applicable to balistic engines. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 194 Increasing the ballistic power of our weapons. 1930 Amer. Jrnl. Police Sci. 1 148 Ballistic Equipment, such as..Machine rest, for firing rifles and pistols from fixed positions. 1952 Sci. Monthly May 294/2 Ballistic experiments have shown that such a projectile makes a round crater even though it strikes at a considerable angle from the vertical. 1992 Police June 66/2 The..District Attorney's office realized the need to have a ballistic reconstruction performed to learn if the..shots..could be sequenced and matched to the various bullet holes and impact marks on the walls. 2000 I. B. Cohen in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers ii. 118 ENIAC was restricted in its original design by the mission of computing ballistic tables. b. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of armour, a material, etc.: designed to offer protection against bullets or other projectiles; bulletproof. Also: designating the level of such protection offered (esp. in ballistic strength). ΚΠ 1896 Sci. Amer. 12 Dec. 428/3 The back of the ballistic armor plate was broken out for a diameter of two feet around the hole. 1909 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 14 May The spalling..is said to be due to the severe treatment necessary to produce the high ballistic strength. The armor of the kind affected comes in plates weighing from fifteen to twenty-eight tons each. 1952 East Liverpool (Ohio) Rev. 11 Mar. 16/1 High-quality, heat-treated ballistic armor casting of low alloy steel for use on U.S. army tanks. 1987 Advertising Age (Nexis) 9 Feb. 38 The $495 bullet-resistant trench coat is being offered to civilians by the same folks who have sold ballistic clothing. 1997 J. Hawes Rancid Aluminium (1998) iv. 70 Chernenin sat in his office and looked down through the thick, ballistic glass, onto the foyer. 2006 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 30 Sept. (Citrus Times section) 8 He has..kept the car's ballistic strength with new windows that can deflect a .50-caliber bullet. 2. a. Of motion, a trajectory, etc.: able to be described in terms of the laws of ballistics, involving gravity, inertia, and the resistance of a medium. Of a projectile, device, etc.: displaying such motion. Also (in wider sense): designating motion or change, or its course, etc., initiated by a brief input of energy and continuing as a result of momentum. ΚΠ 1843 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 8 105 An orbit coming nearly or quite in contact with the sun, and presenting the singular circumstance of the ballistic curve, so called with respect to the sun, in the same manner, as projectiles..on the surface of the earth. 1878 W. E. Ayrton & J. Perry in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 487 To obtain a galvanometric arrangement..sufficiently ballistic that the air damping should be almost inappreciable. 1950 I. Langmuir Phenomena, Atoms & Molecules xvii. 385 The number of atoms per unit area, σ, can be measured..by suddenly heating the filament..and observing the ballistic kick on a galvanometer, since every atom escapes as a positive ion. 1988 Philos. & Public Affairs 17 17 A ‘mid-course’ layer designed to destroy the warheads in their ballistic arc above the atmosphere. 1991 Compute Sept. 66/2 Turning electronic devices on and off subjects them to a power-on or ballistic surge. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1066/1 The seeds are dispersed by a ballistic mechanism. 2004 K. Nakamura & T. Harayama Quantum Chaos & Quantum Dots i. 7 In this situation electrons show ballistic rather than diffusive motions, namely, obey deterministic laws. b. Physiology. Designating a muscular movement which is begun by a rapid muscle contraction but continues as a result of the momentum of the part being moved; relating to or involving such movement; spec. designating muscle stretching in which the posture is changed with an abrupt action. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement extensive1646 abducent1649 peristaltic1652 metaleptic1656 spastic1822 spasmodic1836 ideomotor1854 idiomuscular1860 fibrillary1875 motor1878 myotatic1881 antergic1890 isometric1891 isotonic1891 neurogenic1901 synkinetic1901 ballistic1905 motoric1926 1905 Psychol. Rev. 12 262 This particular form of light, rapid, and sometimes repeated blow, Richer calls ‘ballistic’. 1941 E. B. Greene Measurem. Human Behav. xii. 382 The arm movements were ballistic, that is, without precise control after being initiated. 1962 Rev. Educ. Res. 32 525 De Vries..compared the effect of the static stretching procedures of Hatha Yoga with the more conventional ballistic methods of stretching. 1989 Jrnl. Zool. 219 160 Ballistic tongue projection in chamaeleontid lizards is a highly derived form of lingual feeding thought to have evolved from mechanisms still evident in other, generalized iguanians. 1994 Runner's World Feb. 76/1 The earliest form of stretching, called ‘ballistic stretching’, was abandoned several decades ago. Athletes who tried it found that the rapid bouncing into and out of positions caused muscle soreness and sometimes even muscle tears. 3. In figurative contexts. Out of control, haywire, berserk. Chiefly in to go ballistic slang (originally U.S.): to become wildly or explosively angry, to fly into a rage; (also) to become highly excited or enthusiastic; to intensify rapidly and esp. alarmingly.The specific reference in quot. 1966 is to the failure of a guided missile's guidance system, rendering it ‘ballistic’ (cf. sense 2a). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > be affected with violent emotion [verb (intransitive)] ragea1400 to blow one's top1928 to go haywire1929 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to flip one's lid (also wig)1950 wig1955 to go ballistic1981 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > to rage (of fury) [verb (intransitive)] > be or become furious wedec1000 resea1250 ragea1400 rampc1405 rase1440 outragea1475 stampc1480 enragec1515 ournc1540 gry1594 fury1628 rampage1692 to stamp one's foot1821 to fire off1848 foam1852 fire1859 to stomp one's feetc1927 to spit chips1947 to spit cotton1947 to spit blood1963 to go ballistic1981 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1966 Chicago Tribune 19 July i. 12/2 The SAM has a limiting factor in its ability to change course. If it exceeds these limits in trying to turn, it goes ballistic... It generally explodes in the air.] 1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 114 He turned and stared intently..from black ballistic eyeballs. 1985 Washington Post 11 July a1/4 ‘Wickham went ballistic when he heard about the recommendation,’ one Pentagon executive said. 1988 G. H. W. Bush in N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. 17 I get furious. I go ballistic. I really do and I bawl people out. 1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 10 Sept. 43/3 Just after sunup..the ozone level goes ballistic. 1993 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 28 Dec. 1/1 The national media went ballistic over a claim..that Clinton had lovers. 1998 Lapidary Jrnl. Oct. 20 I went ballistic over the amazing patterns..and color found inside the rocks! 2000 C. Thayer Certain Slant of Light xxvii. 248 Boat belonged to the father of one of the kids. The dad was ballistic over the whole thing. Compounds ballistic camera n. now chiefly historical a camera designed for the precise photography of trajectories and other features of high velocity flight, using techniques such as high-speed multiple imaging, timed exposure with wide-angle lenses, and calibration against the night sky. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > scientific and technical heliograph1848 revolver1876 spectrograph1884 photochronograph1891 photogrammeter1891 process camera1895 gun-camera1921 microcamera1928 phototimer1942 ballistic camera1945 monorail camera1958 1945 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 16 777 (heading) The ballistic cameras. 1947 Ann. Math. Statistics 18 213 Ballistic Cameras were used to determine horizontal x and y, and vertical z coordinates (all in feet) of an airplane traveling about 160 mph at an elevation of about 35,000 feet. 1969 Science 27 June 1513/1 A search for optical auroras produced by the beam pulses was conducted with..visual observers, photometers, and ballistic cameras. ballistic electron emission microscopy n. Physics a technique in which a scanning tunnelling microscope tip is used to inject ballistic electrons into a sample consisting of at least two layers, in order to investigate the interface between the layers. ΚΠ 1988 Sci. Amer. July 11/1 Ballistic-electron-emission microscopy can map the Schottky, an energy threshold at the critical metal-semiconductor interface on microelectronic devices. 1997 Surface Rev. & Lett. 4 307/1 The invention of ballistic electron emission microscopy..has opened up new possibilities for extending the spatial resolution capabilities of scanning probe techniques to the study of buried interfaces. ballistic galvanometer n. a moving-coil galvanometer whose coil has a large moment of inertia and a slow swing, so that the instrument responds to the quantity of charge passed (rather than the size of the current) and is suitable for measuring very small currents. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > [noun] > measurement of galvanic currents > apparatus for > type of thermo-galvanometer1867 tangent galvanometer1873 ballistic galvanometer1875 tangent1905 string-galvanometer1909 tangent compass- 1875 W. Thomson in Proc. Royal Soc. 23 445 Weber's method, by the aid of electromagnetic induction and a ‘ballistic galvanometer’ to measure it,..has been used in the investigation. 1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xliv. 736 An essential feature of a ballistic galvanometer is that the moving system shall not have moved from its zero position before the whole of the quantity to be measured has passed. 1975 W. R. Uttal Cellular Neurophysiol. & Integration ii. 17 In the ballistic galvanometer, the maximum deflection of the coil is proportional to the total amount of current that has flowed through the coil. The peak of the deflection is, therefore, a time integral of all the current produced by the driving voltage. ballistic missile n. a missile which is powered (as a rocket) and guided only in the initial phase of its flight, thereafter falling freely towards its target, typically following a high, arching trajectory. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] missile1945 ballistic rocket1949 ballistic missile1950 I.C.B.M.1955 intercontinental ballistic missile1956 MRBM1960 1950 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 23 Dec. c3/1 There will likely be intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of being shot out of the atmosphere and descending meteor-like on a target. 1959 A. E. Puckett Guided Missile Engin. ii. 7 Ballistic missiles..follow trajectories determined primarily by initial velocity and gravity. 1989 R. Rohmer Red Arctic xi. 80 Look at..those hatches or covers, there are twelve on each side of the deck. They have to be launchers for ballistic missiles or for cruise missiles. 2006 Prospect Aug. 20/2 The proper way to deliver nuclear weapons is by a ballistic missile, a rocket. ballistic nylon n. a tough synthetic fabric, originally used as a bulletproof or blast-proof material but now used for a variety of purposes where strength and durability are desirable, such as luggage, footwear, etc. ΚΠ 1953 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 May 4/4 Armor Specialties also plans to use laminated ballistic nylon in explosive shields and demolition barriers for mining, construction and excavation work. 1972 Times 14 June 23/1 The bomb blanket..is made of ‘a specially designed ballistic nylon with fire resistant coating’ and is designed to contain the blast from home-made bombs. 1994 Canad. Tire Fall & Winter Catal. Fall 4/1 (advt.) Bauer Supreme Custom 1000 skates. Ballistic nylon upper, full-grain leather trim. 2001 Contact May 85/2 The biggest component is the bag, a real tough cookie in ballistic nylon and plenty of padding. ballistic pendulum n. now chiefly historical an apparatus for determining the velocity of a projectile from the amount of deflection produced when it strikes a target that is free to oscillate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > speed or direction as vector quality > device to measure or record velocity ballistic pendulum1764 tachometer1810 velocimeter1842 velocity-measurer1850 gun-pendulum1867 the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > in the physical sciences > measurement of > instrument > for measuring velocity of projectiles ballistic pendulum1764 gun-pendulum1867 registrar1872 1742 B. Robins New Princ. Gunnery i. 27 If a Bullet of a known Weight strikes the Pendulum, and the Vibration, which the Pendulum makes in consequence of the Stroke, be ascertained, the Velocity, with which the Ball moved, is thence to be known.] 1764 B. Martin Physico-ballistics x in Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. 8 335 (chapter title) The Quantity of the Air's resistance to Projectiles, and Bullets in particular, determined by Experiments on the Ballistic Pendulum. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §298 Robins' Ballistic Pendulum, a massive cylindrical block of wood cased in a cylindrical sheath of iron closed at one end and moveable about a horizontal axis. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 40 The ‘unit deflective charge’..is the weight of the explosive that has been found to deflect the pendulum of the Bureau of Mines ballistic pendulum to the same degree that the standard weight of..dynamite has deflected it in a previous test. 1998 G. I. Brown Big Bang iv. 39 The Trauzl test..was replaced around 1900 by the ballistic pendulum test. ballistic rocket n. a rocket which is not guided after its initial propulsion phase; esp. a ballistic missile. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] missile1945 ballistic rocket1949 ballistic missile1950 I.C.B.M.1955 intercontinental ballistic missile1956 MRBM1960 1949 Jrnl. Amer. Rocket Soc. Dec. 165 We have traced the path from the unguided small rocket to the huge ballistic rocket. 1962 F. W. Mulley Polit. Western Defense iv. 45 An improved version of the German V2 ballistic rocket..is the standard equipment of the [Soviet Army's] tactical missile units. 2001 Grey Room Winter 40 The origins of radiosity may be found in the expensive problems presented when ballistic rockets reenter the earth's atmosphere. ballistic trajectory n. the path taken by a projected body which is acted upon only by gravitational forces and the resistance of the medium through which it passes. ΚΠ 1954 Royal Air Force Flying Rev. Dec. 16/2 Instead of plunging back to the ground on a ballistic trajectory (like the V-2), the dive would be terminated by means of automatic controls. 1991 New Yorker 2 Sept. 58/2 Others at Langley had begun to kick around the idea of sending a man into space on a ballistic trajectory. 2007 Flight Internat. (Nexis) 15 May The rocket-powered vehicle would accelerate to 14,900mph,..releasing its fly-back propellant-tank first stage and then continuing on a ballistic trajectory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1764
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