ballonet
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballonnet.
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ballonet (plural ballonets)
- Any of several small balloons, inside a dirigible, that can be inflated or deflated to control buoyancy during flight.
- 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 27:
- An observation balloon, sausage-shaped and thickened at one end by small subsidiary ballonets, lifted itself, almost as though it were being hoisted by a series of pulls, out of one of the hollows beneath them […].
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- ballonnet (uncommon)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballonnet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballonet m (plural ballonetten)