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ballas

ballas noun: a spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure. Also the plural of balla.

Noun

ballas (plural ballases)

  1. A spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
    • Ballases with smooth even surface yield X-ray patterns of rings only, without noticeable spots or with very small spots, which is an evidence of a fine-ray radial structure of these spherulites.1987, L. F. Vereshchagin, Synthetic Diamonds and Hydrostatic Extrusion, Selected Papers, page 89

Proper noun capitalized: Ballas

Ballas

  1. A surname.

Also used as

ballas is also the plural of balla.

Forms of ballas

pluralballases

Questions about ballas

What does ballas mean?
Ballas means a spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
What part of speech is ballas?
Ballas can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ballas?
The plural of ballas is ballases.

Words near ballas in the dictionary

  1. Ballardian
  2. Ballards
  3. Ballardvale
  4. Ballari
  5. Ballarino
  6. ballas
  7. Ballasalla
  8. ballases
  9. ballast
  10. ballast car
  11. ballast cars

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