ballistic
of or relating to ballistics.
having its motion determined or describable by the laws of exterior ballistics.
Idioms about ballistic
go ballistic, Informal. to become overwrought or irrational: went ballistic over the idea of a tax hike.
Origin of ballistic
1Other words from ballistic
- bal·lis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby ballistic
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How to use ballistic in a sentence
There was one known albanerpetontid specimen that did have a long, thin bone preserved near its skull, and “I suspected for a long time that they had some sort of ballistic tongue mechanism,” she says.
An ancient amphibian is the oldest known animal with a slingshot tongue | Carolyn Gramling | November 5, 2020 | Science NewsMegan Squire, a professor at North Carolina’s Elon University, has monitored extremist-group members who lay ballistic vests flat and post pictures, like so-called unboxing videos popular on YouTube.
Americans are frantically buying military gear before the election | Rachel Schallom | October 24, 2020 | FortuneMeanwhile, air circulation and filtration won’t offer much protection from “ballistic” transmission—the ejection of droplets from someone who coughs, sneezes, or talks loudly.
Winter will make the pandemic worse. Here’s what you need to know. | David Rotman | October 8, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewCameron said his team of investigators reconstructed the events that took place that night by reviewing ballistics evidence, 911 calls, police radio traffic, and interviews.
Protesters hit the streets for a second night after officers aren’t charged with killing Breonna Taylor | Fabiola Cineas | September 25, 2020 | VoxAccording to the ballistics report, Mattingly was shot once by a 9 mm handgun, the gun that belonged to Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend.
Protesters hit the streets for a second night after officers aren’t charged with killing Breonna Taylor | Fabiola Cineas | September 25, 2020 | Vox
And the Republicans are going to go ballistic, especially on immigration.
Russia is also working on new a fleet of ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines to operate under the ice caps.
Our right wing went absolutely ballistic this past summer over 60,000 kids, who came here for reasons we helped create.
The latest showdown between the U.S. and Russia could go ballistic.
The S-300 deploys sophisticated radars, launch vehicles and missiles to shoot aircraft and even ballistic missiles out of the sky.
Russia’s Ace in the Hole: a Super-Missile It Can Sell to Iran | Eli Lake | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeta took the ship into the stratosphere, in a high ballistic arc that ended at the islands.
Deathworld | Harry HarrisonFrom a ballistic standpoint this cartridge was virtually obsolete.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellThis causes a ballistic throw proportional to the induction through the bar at the moment when the two portions were separated.
Between the magnetizing coils is a small induction coil D, which is connected with a ballistic galvanometer.
The ends of this coil were carried to a distant part of the laboratory, and connected to a sensitive ballistic galvanometer.
British Dictionary definitions for ballistic
/ (bəˈlɪstɪk) /
of or relating to ballistics
denoting or relating to the flight of projectiles after power has been cut off, moving under their own momentum and the external forces of gravity and air resistance
(of a measurement or measuring instrument) depending on a brief impulse or current that causes a movement related to the quantity to be measured: a ballistic pendulum
go ballistic informal to become enraged or frenziedly violent
(of materials) strong enough to resist damage by projectile weapons: ballistic nylon
Derived forms of ballistic
- ballistically, adverb
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Other Idioms and Phrases with ballistic
see go ballistic.
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