meteorological balloon

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   a small unmanned balloon set aloft to observe atmospheric conditions

   Broaderballoon

   Narrowerpilot balloon

Questions about meteorological balloon

What does meteorological balloon mean?

meteorological balloon means "a small unmanned balloon set aloft to observe atmospheric conditions".

Is meteorological balloon a common word?

meteorological balloon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.