First attest 1775, ultimately from Greek ballein "to throw". Of rockets or missiles, from 1949. Ballistic missile first attested 1954, attained extreme heights, hence figurative expression 'go ballistic' (1981) "become irrationally angry."
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The Romans created the first ballista. It looked like a very large cross bow. It throws things a long way (relatively). A ballistic missile throws itself. An anti-ballistic missile throws itself at the incoming ballistic missile.
the father of ballistics was Calvin Goddard
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
Germany
You teacher will go ballistic when she realises you plagiarized this sentence.
the crazy old lady was ballistic when she realized her precious kittens had been stolen from her.
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Ballistic is slang for crazy and usually used in the phrase "going ballistic."Ballistics is the study of the dynamics of projectiles, generally focusing on the internal action of firearms.
ballistic: crazy, uncontrolled " BALLISTIC person"= "crazy person" Ballistic has a specific technical meaning. It refers to the flight, behaviour and terminal effect of projectiles that are unguided. The study of this is known as ballistics. An example sentence might be "A bullet fired from a gun behaves as a ballistic projectile".
The bomb went ballistic when it blew up.
Stick arena Ballistic is coming out just like commando 2 ithas previews so it should come put in 2 weeks or so
Ballistic (in German Ballistische) is the study of the dynamics of projectiles or missiles and the internal workings of firearms. It is also a slang word that means to become very angry.
Ballistic is an adjective.
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azimuth precesion caused by ballistic deflection. tilt precesion caused by ballistic tilt.
Go Ballistic was created in 2003.