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ballistic

adj. describing a movement (or part of a movement) in which the motion, once initiated, is not altered by feedback-based corrections. Ballistic is sometimes also used, incorrectly, to describe any rapid movement.

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inferior function

inferior function

in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung, one of the three nondominant, unconscious functions of the personality that are dominated by the superior function in a particular functional type.