Ballistic
adjective
Related to the science of the motion of projectiles in flight.
The bullet followed a ballistic trajectory.
Often appears as...
- ballistic missile
- ballistic trajectory
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Technical
adjective
Related to or characteristic of the flight of objects in motion.
The car went ballistic and flew off the road.
Often appears as...
- go ballistic
- ballistic trajectory
adjective
Becoming very angry or irate.
When he found out he had been cheated, he went ballistic.
Often appears as...
- go ballistic
- nearly ballistic
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Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
Related to the science of the motion of projectiles in flight.
The bullet followed a ballistic trajectory.
Often appears as...
- ballistic missile
- ballistic trajectory
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Related to or characteristic of the flight of objects in motion.
The car went ballistic and flew off the road.
Often appears as...
- go ballistic
- ballistic trajectory
adjective
Becoming very angry or irate.
When he found out he had been cheated, he went ballistic.
Often appears as...
- go ballistic
- nearly ballistic
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Usage
Used mostly in scientific and military contexts to describe the path of projectiles.
Engineers performed ballistic calculations for the new artillery.
Pro Tip 2/3Motion Science
Focuses on the behavior of objects like bullets or rockets when thrown or fired.
The missile's ballistic trajectory was carefully plotted.
Pro Tip 3/3Precision Required
Precision is key in ballistic sciences to ensure accuracy and safety.
Ballistic experts testify about the bullet's path.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Usage
Used mostly in scientific and military contexts to describe the path of projectiles.
Engineers performed ballistic calculations for the new artillery.
Pro Tip 2/3Motion Science
Focuses on the behavior of objects like bullets or rockets when thrown or fired.
The missile's ballistic trajectory was carefully plotted.
Pro Tip 3/3Precision Required
Precision is key in ballistic sciences to ensure accuracy and safety.
Ballistic experts testify about the bullet's path.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Usage
Used mostly in scientific and military contexts to describe the path of projectiles.
Engineers performed ballistic calculations for the new artillery.
Pro Tip 2/3Motion Science
Focuses on the behavior of objects like bullets or rockets when thrown or fired.
The missile's ballistic trajectory was carefully plotted.
Pro Tip 3/3Precision Required
Precision is key in ballistic sciences to ensure accuracy and safety.
Ballistic experts testify about the bullet's path.
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Prepper Build: ATV Tank...
here in the center in front of that I have a ballistic cover then we're gonna go into a camouflage the vehicle the end product we're doing this thing it's basically going to be a mini tank rolling around the property here the gun mount is necessary to be able to stay with stabilizer weapon systems it will help get the gun above the handlebars
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Who won the space race? ...
the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, the same rocket that would be used to launch Sputnik two months later. So, the scary thing about Sputnik was not the orbiting ball itself, but the fact that the same technology could be used to launch a nuclear warhead at any city.
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Niall Ferguson: The 6...
in a number of crucial ways, the most important being that, through the experimental method, it gave men control over nature in a way that had not been possible before. Benjamin Robins's extraordinary application of Newtonian physics to ballistics. Once you do that,
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The unheard story of...
were not normal rocks. They were barium sulphate, which are rocks twice the density of normal stones. If you do the calculations on the ballistics, on the stopping power of the rock fired from David's sling, it's roughly equal to the stopping power of a handgun.
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Things you learned in...
fun so this is a treble shake everybody's kind of familiar with those the bow and arrow we have a ballistic cannon and we have basketball players so in the field of sports we do a lot of things in terms of looking at trajectories basketball players baseball
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Gangster Gunplay PIPE...
Goddard's ballistics tests prove not only that bullets found at the crime scene were fired from the weapons but the rate of fire was so fast it would have been impossible for any of the victims to turn react to the gunfire and try to protect themselves
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What happens when our...
from broken-off tree branches to intercontinental ballistic missiles. So this then seems pretty obvious that everything we've achieved, and everything we care about, depends crucially on some relatively minor changes that made the human mind.
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Brady vs. Wild Hog PIPE...
in here and Lee's holding some feral hogs he captured earlier in a pen and I'm gonna get inside the pen to see what kind of damage they'll do to the leg all right the ballistic gel legs are now attached to a protective shield all I
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GA Finalist PIPE National...
ballistics interests me also physics is on the cutting edge of a new discovery if the scientists can judge figure out how to trap enough antimatter to actually generate energy then the we could change the world for it
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The Power of Photography...
test firing a nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile and the Koreans wanted to show that they were going to launch a peaceful satellite and I came there they wanted
Video examples
Prepper Build: ATV Tank...
here in the center in front of that I have a ballistic cover then we're gonna go into a camouflage the vehicle the end product we're doing this thing it's basically going to be a mini tank rolling around the property here the gun mount is necessary to be able to stay with stabilizer weapon systems it will help get the gun above the handlebars
Video examples
Who won the space race? ...
the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, the same rocket that would be used to launch Sputnik two months later. So, the scary thing about Sputnik was not the orbiting ball itself, but the fact that the same technology could be used to launch a nuclear warhead at any city.
Video examples
Niall Ferguson: The 6...
in a number of crucial ways, the most important being that, through the experimental method, it gave men control over nature in a way that had not been possible before. Benjamin Robins's extraordinary application of Newtonian physics to ballistics. Once you do that,
Video examples
The unheard story of...
were not normal rocks. They were barium sulphate, which are rocks twice the density of normal stones. If you do the calculations on the ballistics, on the stopping power of the rock fired from David's sling, it's roughly equal to the stopping power of a handgun.
Video examples
Things you learned in...
fun so this is a treble shake everybody's kind of familiar with those the bow and arrow we have a ballistic cannon and we have basketball players so in the field of sports we do a lot of things in terms of looking at trajectories basketball players baseball
Video examples
Gangster Gunplay PIPE...
Goddard's ballistics tests prove not only that bullets found at the crime scene were fired from the weapons but the rate of fire was so fast it would have been impossible for any of the victims to turn react to the gunfire and try to protect themselves
Video examples
What happens when our...
from broken-off tree branches to intercontinental ballistic missiles. So this then seems pretty obvious that everything we've achieved, and everything we care about, depends crucially on some relatively minor changes that made the human mind.
Video examples
Brady vs. Wild Hog PIPE...
in here and Lee's holding some feral hogs he captured earlier in a pen and I'm gonna get inside the pen to see what kind of damage they'll do to the leg all right the ballistic gel legs are now attached to a protective shield all I
Video examples
GA Finalist PIPE National...
ballistics interests me also physics is on the cutting edge of a new discovery if the scientists can judge figure out how to trap enough antimatter to actually generate energy then the we could change the world for it
Video examples
The Power of Photography...
test firing a nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile and the Koreans wanted to show that they were going to launch a peaceful satellite and I came there they wanted
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Tom Holland
English Actor
I was in my bed scrolling through Instagram. It had been about a month since my audition. And Marvel just posted a photo saying go to our website and find out who the next Spider-Man is. I went on the Marvel website on my computer, and there it was: The new Spider-Man is Tom Holland. I went ballistic - like, absolutely nuts.
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A. A. Gill
British Writer
Really, I like the future. I appreciate my automatic alarm-call necklace in case I get lost and confused in a mall. I appreciate the watch that tells the hospital my blood pressure's gone ballistic. I like my computer, just as long as it doesn't get ideas above its workstation.
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John Spratt
American Politician
We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
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Granit Xhaka
Swiss Athlete
I know that there are coaches in the Bundesliga that have said in team meetings, 'Provoke Xhaka; he will eventually go ballistic.' I think that is sad. That, in my view, has nothing to do with football.
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Mickey Rourke
American Actor
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.
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Greg Gutfeld
American Author
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Michael T. Flynn
American General
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
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Jim Cornette
American Author
I loved Houston. Those fans would go ballistic.
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Tom Holland
English Actor
I was in my bed scrolling through Instagram. It had been about a month since my audition. And Marvel just posted a photo saying go to our website and find out who the next Spider-Man is. I went on the Marvel website on my computer, and there it was: The new Spider-Man is Tom Holland. I went ballistic - like, absolutely nuts.
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A. A. Gill
British Writer
Really, I like the future. I appreciate my automatic alarm-call necklace in case I get lost and confused in a mall. I appreciate the watch that tells the hospital my blood pressure's gone ballistic. I like my computer, just as long as it doesn't get ideas above its workstation.
Quote examples
John Spratt
American Politician
We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
Quote examples
Granit Xhaka
Swiss Athlete
I know that there are coaches in the Bundesliga that have said in team meetings, 'Provoke Xhaka; he will eventually go ballistic.' I think that is sad. That, in my view, has nothing to do with football.
Quote examples
Mickey Rourke
American Actor
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.
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Greg Gutfeld
American Author
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Michael T. Flynn
American General
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
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Jim Cornette
American Author
I loved Houston. Those fans would go ballistic.
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