Missile vs. Projectile — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Missile and Projectile
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Missile
In military terminology, a missile, also known as a guided missile or guided rocket, is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles have five system components: targeting, guidance system, flight system, engine and warhead.
Projectile
A projectile is a missile propelled by the exertion of a force which is allowed to move free under the influence of gravity and air resistance. Although any objects in motion through space are projectiles, they are commonly found in warfare and sports (for example, a thrown baseball, kicked football, fired bullet, shot arrow, stone released from catapult).In ballistics mathematical equations of motion are used to analyze projectile trajectories through launch, flight, and impact.
Missile
An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile.
Projectile
A fired, thrown, or otherwise propelled object, such as a bullet, having no capacity for self-propulsion.
Missile
A guided missile.
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Projectile
A self-propelled missile, such as a rocket.
Missile
A ballistic missile.
Projectile
Capable of being impelled or hurled forward.
Missile
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. 17
The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
Projectile
Driving forward; impelling
A projectile force.
Missile
(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. 20
That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
Projectile
(Zoology) Capable of being thrust outward; protrusile.
Missile
Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or engine{2}, so as to strike an object at a distance.
We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart.
Projectile
An object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
Missile
A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
Projectile
(physics) Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.
Missile
A rocket-propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive materials to a target.
Projectile
Projecting or impelling forward.
A projectile force; a projectile weapon
Missile
Rocket carrying passengers or instruments or a warhead
Projectile
Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
Missile
A weapon that is thrown or projected
Projectile
Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
Projectile
Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
Projectile
A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
Projectile
A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Projectile
A weapon that is thrown or projected
Projectile
Impelling or impelled forward;
A projectile force
A projectile missile
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