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BALLISTIC PENDULUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballistic pendulum mean? 

BALLISTIC PENDULUM (noun)
  The noun BALLISTIC PENDULUM has 1 sense:

1. a physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod; when it is struck by a projectile its displacement is used to measure the projectile's velocityplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BALLISTIC PENDULUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod; when it is struck by a projectile its displacement is used to measure the projectile's velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

compound pendulum; physical pendulum (pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ballistic pendulum"):

gun pendulum (a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged)


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