ballistic fingerprinting

1. 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

   Synonymsballistic identificationbullet fingerprinting

   Broaderidentification

Questions about ballistic fingerprinting

What does ballistic fingerprinting mean?

ballistic fingerprinting means "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".

What is another word for ballistic fingerprinting?

Close synonyms include ballistic identification, bullet fingerprinting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.