ballistic pendulum

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   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

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Questions about ballistic pendulum

What does ballistic pendulum mean?

ballistic pendulum means "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".

Is ballistic pendulum a common word?

ballistic pendulum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.