BALLISTICS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Ballistics

... "Bullet from a Colt's .32," he said grimly. "I suggest you send one of your men around to the Marshall home to pick up a bullet that was shot in their damned target practice. If you send the two bullets tonight, registered mail, to Wright, the ballistics expert in Chicago, he can probably wire you tomorrow morning as to whether the same gun ...

— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

... phenomena of the coiling of the rays in a field, as already pointed out by Hittorf and Pluecker. When a magnetic field acts on the cathode particle, the latter follows a trajectory, generally helicoidal, which is anticipated by the theory. We here have to do with a question of ballistics, and experiments duly confirm the anticipations of the calculation. Nevertheless, rather singular phenomena appear in the case of certain values of the field, and these phenomena, dimly seen by Pluecker and Birkeland, have been the object of experiments by M. Villard. The two faces of ...

— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare