ballistic identification

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 fingerprintingbullet fingerprinting

   Broaderidentification

Questions about ballistic identification

What does ballistic identification mean?

ballistic identification 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 identification?

Close synonyms include ballistic fingerprinting, 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.