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# How to pronounce "ballistical" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bællɪstɪkæl/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **bal·li·sti·cal**
- **Parts of Speech**: adjective
- **ADJECTIVE**: Characteristic of ballistae; ballistic.
  - *Example*: "As the injury in no was affected the ballistical qualities, advantage was taken of the opportunity thus offered to attempt a determination of the law of the velocities and pressures in the bore."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "ballistical" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And if the shrimp was facing them, they would do this thing with their tentacles of kind of enchanting the shrimp, and if the shrimp wasn't facing them, they wouldn't do it and they would ballistically grab it and eat them. Well, when we got these new shrimp, the new shrimp had eye spots on their tails."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 81:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTBAxD6lt2g&t=4888s)

### Example 2
> "For small spacecraft, it's only on for a few minutes, and then it's like shooting a gun. You have a projectile which just moves ballistically. Even if we, as humans, are not on the spacecraft, at least we have the ability to send out such spacecraft."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2DWyJTUnY&t=224s)

### Example 3
> "flexible joints has done stairs successfully going up and downstairs without ballistically where you maintain"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 77:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GKPxEmbu0&t=4657s)

### Example 4
> "So again, ballistically jumping around and jumping together."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKajORo4Gk4&t=1964s)

### Example 5
> "also in May in Ukraine and what is a striking about this narrative is that both countries are Russia and and Iran they already have like ballistic missiles and ballistically sales fly at Hypersonic speed so when when they are referring to Hypersonic missile um as a as a new um missile technology it's not about the speed but it's about the ability to to change the trajectory"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E14Y9qXeHAU&t=354s)

### Example 6
> "Because a neutron hitting a proton can transfer up to all of its energy ballistically."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXrGOd7gdMw&t=834s)

### Example 7
> "And then next weekend, you try to sleep it back, but you're still four hours lost. So, now you've got eight hours of net debt. In other words, what it develops is into a compounding interest on a loan. It just starts to escalate ballistically across weeks, across years, and across the lifespan. And then what happens in terms of health outcomes? So, say that I did that for a couple of years. Say that I sustained that pattern of, you know,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 88:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us8n8VBQn_c&t=5317s)

### Example 8
> "be due to Rutherford scattering, because you might directly ballistically slam and ion out of the surface."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VMwG1MTHg&t=2544s)

### Example 9
> "so you don't-- You could use a knife for this if you want, but this is a Japanese mandoline, and they're really ballistically sharp."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38e1o8Trl-A&t=1274s)

### Example 10
> "And quite frankly, that's exactly what it is. A group of males will grab a female, hold her down, and ballistically ejaculate their spiral-shaped penis into her corkscrew-shaped vagina over and over and over again."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39x_WTPix0&t=279s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [baalitical](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/baalitical)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "ballistical" correctly?
"ballistical" is pronounced `/bællɪstɪkæl/`. Syllable breakdown: **bal·li·sti·cal**.

### What does "ballistical" mean in context?
Characteristic of ballistae; ballistic.

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