projectile

From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/, /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.taɪl/, /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.tl̩/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ject‧ile

projectile (plural projectiles)

1. An object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
2. (physics) Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.

• missile
• rocket

projectile (not comparable)

1. Projecting or impelling forward.

   a projectile force; a projectile weapon

2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:

     A free and strong Projectile Motion of the Blood must occasion a florid Appearance upon the Skin in such Constitutions

• projectile vomiting

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ʒɛk.til/

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projectile m (plural projectiles)

1. projectile

• “projectile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.