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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 velocity
Familiarity information: BALLISTIC PENDULUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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