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. (Colloq.)
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.
