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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A balloon used to carry instruments aloft to gather meteorological data in the atmosphere.
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- noun a balloon that carries
meteorological instruments aloft in order tomeasure ,record andreturn data concerningatmospheric pressure ,temperature andhumidity
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