Crossword-Solution: BALLISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ballistic | a. | Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. |
| Ballistic | a. | Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “BALLISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjective presently associated with Thor and Jupiter. | 1 answer |
| Irrational way to go | 1 answer |
| Of projectile motion | 1 answer |
| Of projectiles | 1 answer |
| Out of control: sl. | 1 answer |
| Relating to projectiles. | 1 answer |
| Part of ABM | 3 answers |
| Part of ICBM | 3 answers |
| Like some missiles | 8 answers |
| very angry | 15 answers |
| Wild _____ | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BALLISTIC (5)
When he saw that undermining the tower could not be accomplished, Anselm undertook the task of urging our men to use the ballistic machines.
You would have seen how they had learned to hurl stones at the ballistic machines, how to cover their walls with timber and mats, and how to hurl what they called Greek fire at the machines, since they knew that the greatest difficulty for the besiegers was the lack of material.
Siege engines were quickly built, many ballistic machines were drawn up around the walls, and a beam with a metal front, which was called a battering ram, was put in place.
Having looked into the abyss in the early stages of the Kosovo crisis (remember the re-directed ballistic nuclear missiles) - Yeltsin engaged in a surprisingly elegant volte-face.
The scrapping of the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, America's presence in central Asia and the Caucasus, Russia's "near abroad" - are traumatic reversals of fortune.
Quotes with BALLISTIC (3)
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions
One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure the absolute space), was based on the ballistic hypothesis, i.e. on postulating that the speed of light predicted by Maxwell's equations was not given as relative to the medium but as relative to the transmitter (firearm). Had that been the case, the experiment negative results would have not caused such perplexity and frustratio…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1958–2016).