Definitions for ballistic

ballistic bal·lis·tic

Spelling: [buh-lis-tik]
IPA: /bəˈlɪs tɪk/

Ballistic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in ballistic (abciillst).

Definitions for ballistic

Idioms

  1. go ballistic, Informal. to become overwrought or irrational:

adjective

  1. of or relating to ballistics.
  2. having its motion determined or describable by the laws of exterior ballistics.

Origin of ballistic

First recorded in 1765-75; ballist(a) + -ic

Examples for ballistic

This cannon is a duplicate of the one used for the ballistic pendulum, details of which have already been given.

Rifle and ballistic pendulums on the northeast, and the steam boiler house on the northwest portions.

One was the determination of the288 velocity of a bullet fired from a rifle into a Robins ballistic pendulum.

Sanctions failed to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them.

From a ballistic standpoint this cartridge was virtually obsolete.

As for the ballistic properties of the piece, they are very remarkable.

This cannon (Fig. 2) is similar to that used in the ballistic pendulum.

Russia is also working on new a fleet of ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines to operate under the ice caps.

Police arrested Lonnie Franklin Jr. in the summer of 2010, when DNA and ballistic evidence linked him to the slayings.

What is basically being attempted is a ballistic, sub-orbital flight, like a ride atop a short-range missile.

Word Value for ballistic
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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