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microballistics

microballistics noun: the science of microscale ballistics.

Noun

microballistics (uncountable)

  1. The science of microscale ballistics.
    • A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within...2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News

Origin of microballistics

From micro- + ballistics, itself from ballista + -ics or by surface analysis, ballistic + -s.

Questions about microballistics

What does microballistics mean?
Microballistics means the science of microscale ballistics.
What part of speech is microballistics?
Microballistics is a noun.

Words near microballistics in the dictionary

  1. microbal
  2. microbalance
  3. microbalances
  4. microball
  5. microballistic
  6. microballistics
  7. microballoon
  8. microballoons
  9. microballs
  10. microband
  11. microbands

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