Usually means: Balloon used for atmospheric measurements.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilot balloon: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilot balloon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pilot balloon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pilot balloon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pilot balloon: Vocabulary.com
  6. pilot balloon: Wordnik
  7. pilot balloon: Wiktionary
  8. pilot balloon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pilot balloon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pilot balloon, pilot balloon: Dictionary.com
  11. Pilot balloon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pilot balloon: Rhymezone
  13. Pilot Balloon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. pilot balloon: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pilot balloon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pilot balloon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pilot balloon: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See pilot_balloons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pilot balloon)

noun:  (meteorology) A small unmanned balloon whose ascent is followed by a theodolite to obtain data for the computation of the speed and direction of winds in the upper air.

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