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  • sounding balloon

    a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.

  • ballonet

    an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape

  • balloon angioplasty

    angioplasty in which a balloon catheter is moved to a blocked area of a blood vessel where the balloon is inflated to expand or force open the vessel

  • barrage balloon

    Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.

  • free balloon

    a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.

  • guide rope

    a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
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