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BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING
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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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ballistic fingerprinting" is a kind of...):
identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)