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Definition of Ballistics

1. Noun. The trajectory of an object in free flight.

Definition of Ballistics

1. n. The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

Definition of Ballistics

1. Noun. (physics) The science of objects that predominately fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets. ¹

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Definition of Ballistics

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Literary usage of Ballistics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"METHOD IN EXTERIOR ballistics.1 BY AG WEBSTER AND MILDRED ALLEN. (Read April 20, 1918. Received June 4, 1919.) Whether the method to be described deserves ..."

2. Report on the Medico-military Aspects of the European War from Observations by Archibald Magill Fauntleroy (1915)
"ballistics. As there is no doubt that the field artillery is playing the dominant role in the present war, it is thought that a few words and sketches on ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... other departments, all existing doubt on various homologies may be removed. " Exterior ballistics.—' Error of the Day,' and other Corrections to Naval ..."

4. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"ballistics.—We shall notice more particularly the history of some of the problems of mechanics. Though John Bernoulli always spoke with admiration of ..."

5. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1858)
"ballistics.—We shall notice more particularly the history of some of the problems of mechanics. Though John Bernoulli always spoke with admiration of ..."

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