Ballistic

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  • adjective. undefined
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to ballistics, or the scientific construction and use of projectiles.
  • 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. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Or relating to ballistics.
  • adjective. Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power
  • adjective. Very angry.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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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    frenzied