How do you use Ballistics in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like trajectory or flight, plus the exact meaning.
Ballistics meaning
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.
Synonyms of Ballistics
Using Ballistics
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: ballistic trajectory, trajectory, flight, dynamics.
- In the example corpus, ballistics often appears in combinations such as: and ballistics, ballistics for, internal ballistics.
Context around Ballistics
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ballistics
- In this selection, "ballistics" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, messages, sends, fingerprints, missiles, fired and influenced stand out and add context to how "ballistics" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afternoon that ballistics tests confirmed and an fbi ballistics analysis determined. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ballistics" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ballistics
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The firearms will be taken for ballistics for further investigations. (10 words)
There were no fingerprints, ballistics, DNA or any forensic evidence pointing to Mr. Johnson. (14 words)
At higher speeds, such as in ballistics, the shape is highly distorted and does not resemble a parabola. (18 words)
Taylor, dressed in her nightclothes, was shot six times by bullets fired by Cosgrove and Mattingly, Cameron said, adding that an FBI ballistics analysis determined that the one fatal shot came from Cosgrove’s 40-caliber weapon. (37 words)
Neither Reinhart nor Lizzie liked having to remove him from their lists of suspects yet they didn’t have much to go on and so Lizzie decided to focus on the ballistics. (32 words)
St. Paul police say they are seeking the $750,000 Justice Department grant to boost investigations and prosecutions of gun violence through better ballistics evidence and data from gunfire location technology. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ukraine shot down 11 cruise and ballistics fired in the second of Monday's attacks on Kyiv, said Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Unlike in many homicide cases where there is fingerprint evidence, cellphone tracking, text messages, ballistics or DNA, in Sherrell’s case there was none of that.
Authentic Weapon Mechanics: Experience diegetic weapon handling with authentic interactions, from manual scope adjustments to bolt operation and a full suite of ballistics influenced by weather, distance, and ammunition types.
Or North Korea taking leadership of the Council on Disarmament even as Kim Jong Un sends ballistics missiles toward his Asian neighbours.
There were no fingerprints, ballistics, DNA or any forensic evidence pointing to Mr. Johnson.
This includes costs for privately funded DNA testing, crime-scene, blood-spatter and ballistics experts and of course lawyers’ fees.
Although the rounds that killed Lira left through exit wounds, ballistics in the report indicated that three of the six other officers charged had fired weapons.
Taylor, dressed in her nightclothes, was shot six times by bullets fired by Cosgrove and Mattingly, Cameron said, adding that an FBI ballistics analysis determined that the one fatal shot came from Cosgrove’s 40-caliber weapon.
The figure is from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, which tracks illegal firearms in Britain, and includes guns which came directly and indirectly to Britain from the United States.
St. Paul police say they are seeking the $750,000 Justice Department grant to boost investigations and prosecutions of gun violence through better ballistics evidence and data from gunfire location technology.
The SPY 6 can distinguish approaching enemy anti-ship missiles close to the surface from less relevant objects and also track higher-altitude ballistics missiles -- on the same system.
They learned from ballistics that the bullet found in Corinne was a match for the ones that killed Cabot.
Eddie Johnson said Tuesday afternoon that ballistics tests confirmed shell casings from both shootings came from the same gun.
If larger explosions do occur their style and magnitude cannot be predicted; it is possible that they could produce more ballistics and ash, and possibly also pyroclastic surges (defined below).
Neither Reinhart nor Lizzie liked having to remove him from their lists of suspects yet they didn’t have much to go on and so Lizzie decided to focus on the ballistics.
The current version of the Army and Marine Corps combat helmets are largely designed for protection from ballistics like gunfire or shrapnel.
The firearms will be taken for ballistics for further investigations.
As the surface of the propellant burns, the shape evolves (a subject of study in internal ballistics), most often changing the propellant surface area exposed to the combustion gases.
At higher speeds, such as in ballistics, the shape is highly distorted and does not resemble a parabola.
Ballistics for both rounds are similar and don't require weapons to be re-zeroed, but if they are the EPR can be slightly more accurate.
Common combinations with ballistics
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and ballistics 4×
- ballistics for 3×
- internal ballistics 3×
- of ballistics 2×
- ballistics missiles 2×
- ballistics in 2×
- from ballistics 2×
- ballistics tests 2×
- ballistics and 2×
- external ballistics 2×