How to say "ballistic" in Japanese

• バリスティック
  na-adjectiveA loanword covering the technical, missile-related sense of 'ballistic'. It is less common than 弾道 and appears mainly in specialist writing or translated material; it is rarely the everyday word you want.
• 弾道だんどうCommon
  no-adjective, prenominal modifierThe common word for the technical sense of 'ballistic', referring to the trajectory of a projectile such as a bullet or missile. Use this for ballistic missiles and related technical contexts.

For the technical missile-trajectory sense, 弾道 is the common word; 「バリスティック」 is a rarer loanword covering the same technical sense, mainly in specialist or translated contexts.

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• バリスティックballistic
• 弾道だんどうballistic