Usually means: Projectile motion under gravity alone.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballistic: Merriam-Webster
  2. ballistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ballistic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ballistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ballistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ballistic, ballistic: Wordnik
  7. ballistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ballistic: Wiktionary
  9. ballistic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ballistic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ballistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ballistic, ballistic: Dictionary.com
  13. ballistic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ballistic (DC Comics), Ballistic (Image Comics), Ballistic (comics), Ballistic (videogame), Ballistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ballistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ballistic: Rhymezone
  17. Ballistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ballistic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ballistic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ballistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ballistic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. ballistic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  23. ballistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. ballistic: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballistic: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballistic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ballistic: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ballistic)

▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Of or relating to ballistics.
▸ adjective:  (comparable) Of or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, aerodynamic drag, gravity, and sometimes rocket power, without significant lift.
▸ adjective:  (comparable, slang) Very angry.

Similar:
ballistic trajectory, ballistical, astroballistic, aeroballistic, ballistometric, electroballistic, ballistocardiac, cardioballistic, ballistocardiographic, bolometric, more...

Opposite:
sedentary

Types:
air, kinetic, nuclear, thermal, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, sonic, magnetic, more...

Phrases:
ballistic missile, ballistic missiles, went ballistic, Ballistic galvanometer, ballistic trajectory, more...

Colors:
    black,     red,     olive drab,     navy blue,     gray, more...

↻From "Sensurround" by They Might Be Giants:

Made the fakeness realistic
When the action went ballistic
1 of 38 verses


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Similar:
ballistic trajectory, ballistical, astroballistic, aeroballistic, ballistometric, electroballistic, ballistocardiac, cardioballistic, ballistocardiographic, bolometric, more...

Opposite:
sedentary

Types:
air, kinetic, nuclear, thermal, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, sonic, magnetic, more...

Phrases:
ballistic missile, ballistic missiles, went ballistic, Ballistic galvanometer, ballistic trajectory, ballistic pendulum, ballistic transport, Ballistic coefficient, ballistic movement, gone ballistic, more...

Colors:
    black,     red,     olive drab,     navy blue,     gray, more...



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