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ballistic separator ballistic separator[bə′lis·tik ′sep·ə‚rād·ər] (civil engineering) A device that takes out noncompostable material like stones, glass, metal, and rubber, from solid waste by passing the waste over a rotor that has impellers to fling the material in the air; the lighter organic (compostable) material travels a shorter distance than the heavier (noncompostable) material. |