Ballistic

Bal`lis´tic

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a.	1.	Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
	2.	Pertaining to ballistics{2}, or to a projectile in a gravitational field.
	3.	frenzied; very angry; - used mostly in the phrase

Ballistic pendulum
an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it.

Adj.

ballistic - relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity; "ballistic missile"