ballistics

English

Etymology

From New Latin ballistica +‎ -s, use as noun of feminine of ballisticus (“ballistic”). Compare later ballistic and French balistique. By surface analysis, ballista +‎ -ics or ballistic +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlɪst.ɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ballistics (uncountable)

1. (physics) The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets.

Derived terms

• aeroballistics
• astroballistics
• ballistic conduction
• ballistic fingerprinting
• bioballistics
• biolistics
• electroballistics
• external ballistics
• internal ballistics
• microballistics
• terminal ballistics
• transition ballistics

Translations

science of the study of falling objects

• Albanian: balistikë (sq)
• Armenian: ձգաբանություն (hy) (jgabanutʻyun), բալիստիկա (hy) (balistika)
• Azerbaijani: ballistika
• Belarusian: балі́стыка (be) f (balístyka)
• Bulgarian: бали́стика f (balístika)
• Catalan: balística (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彈道學 / 弹道学 (zh) (dàndàoxué)

• Czech: balistika f
• Danish: ballistik c
• Dutch: ballistiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: balistiko
• Estonian: ballistika
• Finnish: ballistiikka (fi)
• French: balistique (fr) f
• Georgian: ბალისტიკა (balisṭiḳa)
• German: Ballistik (de) f
• Greek: βλητική (el) f (vlitikí)
• Hindi: प्राक्षेपिकी f (prākṣepikī)
• Hungarian: ballisztika (hu)
• Ido: balistiko (io)
• Irish: balaistíocht f
• Italian: balistica (it) f
• Japanese: 弾道学 (ja) (だんどうがく, dandōgaku)
• Kazakh: баллистика (ballıystıyka)
• Khmer: ខិត្តវិទ្យា (khəttaʼvɨtyiə)
• Korean: 탄도학(彈道學) (ko) (tandohak)
• Kyrgyz: баллистика (ballistika)
• Latvian: ballistika f
• Lithuanian: balistika f
• Macedonian: балистика f (balistika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballistikk m

• Persian: بالستیک (bâlestik)
• Polish: balistyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: balística (pt) f
• Romanian: balistică (ro) f
• Russian: балли́стика (ru) f (ballístika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: balìstika (sh) f

  Latin: балѝстика f

• Slovak: balistika f
• Slovene: balistika f
• Spanish: balística (es) f
• Swedish: ballistik (sv) c
• Tagalog: balistika
• Thai: วิถีศาสตร์ (wí-tǐi-sàat)
• Turkish: balistik (tr)
• Ukrainian: балі́стика (uk) f (balístyka)
• Uzbek: ballistika (uz)