BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballistic identification mean? 

• BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION (noun)
  The noun BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it

  Familiarity information: BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ballistic fingerprinting; ballistic identification; bullet fingerprinting

Hypernyms ("ballistic identification" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)