Definition of ballistics in English:

ballistics

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plural noun

treated as singular

1The science of projectiles and firearms.
‘In addition, there were other equally profound developments in areas such as firearms and ballistics, mechanics, shipbuilding, mining, distillation, and anatomy, to name but a few.’
- ‘Transitional ballistics is a complex science that involves a number of variables that are not fully understood; therefore, it is not an exact science.’
- ‘Vidocq may not, as his admirers claim, have invented fingerprinting and the science of ballistics, but he did show the importance of keeping detailed criminal records.’
- ‘If you could forgive the ends, the means was actually a neat project in puerile ballistics.’
- ‘Internal ballistics modeled the forces inside of a gun barrel while external ballistics modeled the flight of a projectile.’
- ‘‘Is a forensic firearm specialist the same as a ballistics expert? ‘asked the judge.’
- ‘It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much more.’
- ‘By the mid-nineteenth century, advances in physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and ballistics were influencing the manufacture of weapons.’
- ‘The characteristics of spider silk could have applications in areas ranging from medicine to ballistics.’
- ‘During this trip, he started to shift his attention from ballistics back to mathematics.’
- ‘The embedded ballistics of the FCS ballistic computer gives the gunner range and accuracy.’
- ‘No one intended to besmirch your handguns, but just to keep things straight, we checked with Winchester on our ballistics.’
- ‘He had a real understanding of fortification, ballistics and shipping, and could discuss mathematics and astronomy on equal terms with experts.’
- ‘Case head expansion and dropped primers occurred long before ballistics got interesting.’
- ‘A knowledge of ballistics involved a grasp of mathematics, and that too became a factor in changing military education.’
- ‘In 1940 Wilkinson began war work which involved mathematical and numerical work on ballistics.’
- ‘The ballistics model is First World War ballistics mathematics.’
- ‘Bliss worked on ballistics during World War I and designed new firing tables for artillery.’
- ‘Towards the end of the war, Goldie was transferred to London, where he worked on ballistics at the Woolwich Arsenal.’
- ‘The army had offered him a reserve officer's commission and the command of the office of experimental ballistics at its new Aberdeen proving ground.’
1. 1.1The study of the effects of being fired on a bullet, cartridge, or gun.
  ‘This extraordinarily accurate cartridge has excellent defensive ballistics, spitting a 165-grain Speer Gold Dot bullet at about 1,150 feet per second.’
  ‘At that instant, the total effects of interior ballistics in terms of developed muzzle velocity and spin have been imparted to the projectile.’
  ‘The Swift achieves its ballistics with heavier bullets than the .204, and these heavier bullets carry more energy.’
  ‘And they have connected the gun that was found in the dumpster through ballistics to the bullets found in the victim.’
  ‘The ballistics of a bullet lodged in the sidewalk indicated that the man missed, from five paces away.’
  ‘They will run it with the ballistics of bullets used in other crimes, in case you used the gun earlier.’
  ‘As a result, there are myriad British Nitro Express cartridges exhibiting similar ballistics and knockdown power in the .450 to .475 range.’
  ‘As originally loaded, the new .30 - '03 U.S. cartridge matched the ballistics of the service rounds of other nations.’
  ‘The objective was to provide .270 ballistics in a cartridge short enough to function in the Winchester M88 lever-action and M100 semiautomatic rifles.’
  ‘However, the ballistics of the M16 round are not optimum inside a building.’
  ‘Overall, it's a very readable interpretation of the intensive research being done on shotgun ballistics and performance in the late 1940s and early 1950s.’
  ‘To equal black powder ballistics and pressures in the .45 Colt requires tiny little charges of most smokeless propellants.’
  ‘The premise of the .45 Glock Automatic Pistol is to provide the ballistics of the.45 Automatic Colt Pistol in a smaller platform.’
  ‘Similar ballistics in a rifle that fit Simone seemed to be the answer.’
  ‘The cartridge was designed to improve on the accuracy of and duplicate the ballistics of the .22 Magnum in a reloadable case.’
  ‘Then, as now, many handgun carriers were perfectly happy with mousegun ballistics.’
  ‘Swann said: ‘I based my views on police photographs of the death scenes and on my own ballistics tests using similar weapons.’’
  ‘They achieve these efficient ballistics with moderate recoil, even in rifles that are light and portable enough to be carded comfortably.’
  ‘It's just as accurate, it provides somewhat better ballistics, and the choice of ammunition and rifles is excellent.’
  ‘He said the confiscated rifles have been sent to Australia to check ballistics to see if a link can be established with Wednesday's attack.’