ballistics

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From ballista + -ics. By surface analysis, ballistic + -s.

Dziemian, Arthur J.^{C} Wound ballistics Vol. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
I asked the same question when I cross-examined the ballistics witness. — Lone Star Planet, H. Beam Piper
But science, in particular, represented the major investment of this library: books on mechanics, ballistics, hydrography, meteorology, geography, geology, etc., held a place there no less important than works on natural history, and I realized that they made up the captain’s chief reading. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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