Ballistic
Ballistic ({not transcribed}) , adjective
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 go ballistic. [Colloquial]
Collocations (1)
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.