BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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

Synonyms:

ballistic fingerprinting; ballistic identification; bullet fingerprinting

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ballistic identification" is a kind of...):

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

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