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ballonets

ballonets is the plural of ballonet.

Meaning of ballonet

Noun

ballonet (plural ballonets)

  1. Any of several small balloons, inside a dirigible, that can be inflated or deflated to control buoyancy during flight.
    • 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 […].1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 27

Questions about ballonets

What is ballonets the plural of?
Ballonets is the plural of ballonet.

Words near ballonets in the dictionary

  1. ballon
  2. ballon d'essai
  3. Ballon d'Or
  4. Ballon d'Ors
  5. ballonet
  6. ballonets
  7. ballonigrin
  8. ballonnement
  9. ballonné
  10. ballonnés
  11. ballons

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