microballisticsEtymologyFrom micro- + ballistics, itself from ballista + -ics or by surface analysis, ballistic + -s.nounThe science of microscale ballistics.“A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).”