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sound'ing balloon"



Meteorol.
a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, esp. a radiosonde balloon. Also called weather balloon.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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