Associations to the word «Ballistics»

Wiktionary

BALLISTICS, 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.

Dictionary definition

BALLISTICS, noun. The trajectory of an object in free flight.
BALLISTICS, noun. The science of flight dynamics.

Wise words

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