Definitions for ballistics

ballistics bal·lis·tics

Spelling: [buh-lis-tiks]
IPA: /bəˈlɪs tɪks/

Ballistics is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 363 anagrams from letters in ballistics (abciillsst).

Definitions for ballistics

noun

  1. the science or study of the motion of projectiles, as bullets, shells, or bombs.
  2. the art or science of designing projectiles for maximum flight performance.

Origin of ballistics

First recorded in 1745-55; See origin at ballistic, -ics

Examples for ballistics

To be sure, there are professorships, and ballistics experts in the Navy, but these aren't actually all that well paid.

He admitted in court that he was not a pathologist, and that he did not have any formal training in ballistics or sound.

Forensic, having to do with the law; ballistics, the science of projectiles.

But DiMaio, with his ballistics and forensic credentials, may have been more persuasive.

ballistics—the science dealing with the motion of projectiles.

(The cases were linked through DNA and ballistics evidence).

It was during the sixteenth century that the science of ballistics had its beginning.

May I congratulate you, Mr. Morrison, on this interesting achievement in ballistics?

As he puts it in terms that could apply to ballistics, he is “plotting an arc of motions that plotted me.”

What experience have you had in, say, the field of ballistics?

Word Value for ballistics
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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