Ballistic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Or relating to ballistics. Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power Very angry.
Example sentence: The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.
Trajectory
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The path of a body as it travels through space.The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.Metaphorically, a course of development, such as that of a war or career.
Example sentence: Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.