ballisticsnoun [ U ]
uk/bəˈlɪs.tɪks/us/bəˈlɪs.tɪks/the study of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as a bullet from a gun
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Bombs & missiles
- atom bomb
- ballistic
- ballistic missile
- bomblet
- bombsite
- frag bomb
- fragmentation bomb
- grenade
- guided missile
- H-bomb
- missile
- Molotov cocktail
- mushroom cloud
- napalm
- neutron bomb
- smart bomb
- smoke bomb
- surface-to-air missile
- time bomb
- torpedo
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Examples from literature
- Ballistics —the science dealing with the motion of projectiles.
- Finally, the ballistics expert was brought back to the stand again, to link the two by means of fragments found in the car.
- It was during the sixteenth century that the science of ballistics had its beginning.
- Then they worked out its performance with ballistics formulas.
- There are many problems in the ballistics of archery that are unsolved, waiting the experiments of modern science.