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METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meteorological balloon mean?
• METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON (noun)
The noun METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON has 1 sense:
1. a small unmanned balloon set aloft to observe atmospheric conditions
Familiarity information: METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• METEOROLOGICAL BALLOON (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small unmanned balloon set aloft to observe atmospheric conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("meteorological balloon" is a kind of...):
balloon (large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meteorological balloon"):
pilot balloon (meteorological balloon used to observe air currents)
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