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a tiny argument that ends conversations by traveling faster than regret.
means a small metal projectile fired from a gun, or the round dot that marks an item in a list.
from From French boulette, 'little ball,' a diminutive of boule ('ball'), which traces back to Latin bulla — a bubble, knob, or rounded thing. So the word literally means 'small round thing,' a memory of the early lead spheres that guns spat out before bullets grew their familiar pointed shape. The typographic 'bullet point' borrows the same name simply because the printed mark is a little round dot.
- raw speed
- Rifle rounds outrun sound roughly three times over.
- physics quirk
- Bullets actually fall as fast as dropped ones.
- the wound
- Damage comes from energy dumped, not size.
- old name
- From French boulette, meaning little ball.
dum dum bullet — ammunition developed in dum dum, calcutta in 1898 that expands on impact
magic bullet theory — jfk assassination explanation proposed in the warren commission, 1964
silver bullet — folklore belief across european cultures that only silver can kill werewolves