(a.) Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
(a.) Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.
Example Sentences:
(1) This behavioral evidence supports the previous notion that the underlying neural command is ballistic and does not use sensory information from the stimulus once the movement begins.
(2) His legal team includes three of South Africa's leading defence lawyers, a number of ballistics and forensic experts and, media reports say, an American crime scene reconstruction company.
(3) In order to examine the role of the basal ganglia (BG) in the regulation of basic movement parameters, we recorded extracellularly from pallidal neurons in conscious monkeys during the performance of a sequential wrist movement task which was composed of a series of holds and ballistic jumps.
(4) Hinton’s defense lawyer wrongly thought he had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
(5) On Monday, Nato declared: "Today, we have declared an interim ballistic missile defence capability as an initial step to establish Nato's missile defence system, which will protect all Nato European territories, populations and forces."
(6) In the present study a ballistic monitoring technique was employed to establish criteria for assessment of postural disorders.
(7) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
(8) The skill which is consolidated in the course of subsequent training sessions is accomplished by uniform movements of the ballistic type, and is characterized by independance from the acoustic indication of the final position.
(9) These results are interpreted as evidence for the involvement of the cerebellum in the initiation of some fast ballistic movements.
(10) In response to a following visual stimulus, they carried out a ballistic plantar flexion randomly with the right or left foot.
(11) The 15 council members unanimously approved a statement that stressed how any launch of ballistic missile technology, “even if characterised as a satellite launch or space launch vehicle”, contributes to North Korea’s development of systems to deliver nuclear weapons.
(12) On a ballistic rhythmical tapping test, no marked differences in speed were found, but ambilaterals made slightly fewer errors with the better hand.
(13) Good agreement was found between the interpretation of the ballistic features and the clinical diagnosis.
(14) North Korea claimed the rocket was carrying an observation satellite, but the launches are seen as an opportunity for the state to test ballistic missile technology.
(15) There is evidence of synaptic input systems that preferentially excite large, fast twitch MUs and inhibit small twitch MUs; however, the majority of evidence from human experiments indicates that the recruitment order is not reversed in ballistic contractions.
(16) The trial on Friday heard from defence ballistics expert Tom Wolmarans who testified that it was impossible to be certain how Steenkamp fell when she was hit by bullets, challenging the prosecution's implication that she might have been cowering in fear.
(17) The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.
(18) To clarify the rationale behind the selective management of penetrating neck wounds, current data on ballistics, ancillary diagnostic studies, and comparative costs are reviewed.
(19) A senior North Korean military figure was quoted on Friday as saying that troops had been mobilised and inter-continental ballistic missiles placed on standby.
(20) "We made that alternative very clear," Schmidt said at the end of the trip that the US state department had criticised as "unhelpful" as it attempts to pressure the regime into abandoning its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes.
Projectile
Definition:
(a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
(a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
(n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
(n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(2) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
(3) The bomb – known as an explosively formed projectile – is similar to devices used by Islamic insurgents to kill British and US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
(4) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
(5) A 5-year-old boy presented with a 7-month history of headache and projectile vomiting.
(6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(7) Young people kept throwing rocks at police; the police fired projectiles.
(8) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
(9) Asked to clarify Belmar’s remarks, Officer Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the county force, said in an email: “The Chief said we did not use rubber bullets, which are large rubber projectiles shot from the barrel of a firearm, which we did not use.
(10) (1) In sections showing no atherosclerotic changes, projectiles from hand weapons and from .22 calibre rimfire rifles leave remarkably small holes (comparable to the orifices of the intercostal arteries); in areas with sclerotic plaques the bullet holes are considerably larger.
(11) This initial study suggests that low- and high-velocity projectiles produce different types of tissue debris, with much more fragmentation and scarcity of cellular components in the high-velocity rounds.
(12) For fixed-diameter projectiles, very slow and high velocities produced minimal abrasion width.
(13) This calculation assumes that the nuclear interactions of the incident particles lead to a secondary particle with the velocity of the incident projectile at the interaction point moving in the direction of the incident projectile.
(14) An ambulance arrived at SMC hospital with penetrating damage from what seemed to be a large projectile.
(15) The solvent characteristics of synovial fluid and associated local arthritis are apparently important factors in the dissolution and absorption of lead from projectiles located in joints.
(16) Shami said rebels still had "secret lines" that allowed in food and weapons, and that they were making some projectiles in rudimentary workshops within the neighbourhood.
(17) The effects of the two projectiles at 7.7'' twist were found similar in soap; the SS 109 produced more tissue damage than the M 193 missile.
(18) The authors reconstruct this evolutionary process as a series of "bifurcation points" of either constraints or opportunities forming a sequence of preconditions for the formation of a high-speed projectile tongue characteristic of tropical salamanders.
(19) This article was amended on 21 November 2016 to clarify that Sophia Wilansky’s father told the Guardian that she was injured by a projectile, which North Dakota law enforcement denies.
(20) The women were killed by automatic rifle fire and grenades, and the bodies of the two men were blown up by a hand rocket-launcher projectiles.