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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ballistic \Bal*lis"tic\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling
        stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Pertaining to ballistics[2], or to a projectile in a


        gravitational field.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase
  
     {go ballistic}. [Colloq.]
        [PJC]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ballistic
       adj : relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects
             moving under their own momentum and the force of
             gravity; "ballistic missile"

















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