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BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballistic fingerprinting mean? 

BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING (noun)
  The noun BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING 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 itplay

  Familiarity information: BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING (noun)


Sense 1

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 fingerprinting" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)


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