BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION
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)
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)
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