Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ballistic identification

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: bal-lis-tic i-den-ti-fi-ca-tion
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

8

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

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

Synonyms

ballistic fingerprinting bullet fingerprinting

Questions

What does ballistic identification mean?: 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

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