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Webster 1913 Edition

Ballistics

Bal-lis′tics

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

balistique

. See

.]

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

Whewell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ballistics

BALLIS'TICS

,

Noun.

The science or art of throwing missive weapons, by the use of an engine. The balista was a machine resembling a cross-bow.

Definition 2024

ballistics

ballistics

English

Noun

ballistics ‎(uncountable)

(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.

Derived terms

Terms derived from ballistics

Ballistic conduction
ballistic fingerprinting

external ballistics
internal ballistics

terminal ballistics
transition ballistics

Translations

science of the study of falling objects

Albanian: balistikë (sq)
Bulgarian: балистика ‎(balistika)
Catalan: balística (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 彈道學 (zh), 弹道学 (zh) ‎(dàndàoxué)
Czech: balistika
Esperanto: balistiko
Finnish: ballistiikka (fi)
French: balistique (fr) f
German: Ballistik (de) f
Ido: balistiko (io)

Irish: balaistíocht f
Italian: balistica (it) f
Japanese: 弾道学 ‎(だんどうがく, dandōgaku)
Khmer: ខិត្តវិទ្យា ‎(kʰətta’ vityie)
Polish: balistyka f
Portuguese: balística f
Russian: балли́стика (ru) f ‎(ballístika)
Serbo-Croatian: balistika (sh) f, балистика f
Spanish: balística (es) f
Swedish: ballistik (sv) c
Tagalog: balistika