Other forms: projectiles
A projectile is anything thrown or fired at a target. A heavy projectile.
Once it has left the thing that launched it, only gravity and air act on it. The path a projectile follows is a curve that was worked out by Galileo.
1nounprojectileAnything thrown or fired at a target.
“The projectile travelled two miles and landed in an empty field.”
projectile is an object.
Latin proiectilis comes from proicere, to throw forth, from pro plus iacere, to throw.
Proto-Indo-European
*(H)yeh₁-
Latin
prōiectus
English, today
projectile
Built from
From Medieval Latin - prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA