Balloon (disambiguation)

Balloon (disambiguation)

A balloon is a flexible bag normally filled with a gas, which may be used as a toy, or as an aircraft, or for other purposes.

The following articles address alternative uses of the term.

* Ballooning (spider), the practice of some species of spider of using tufts of webbing in order to be carried by wind currents
* Speech balloon, used in comic books, strips, and cartoons
* List of balloon uses, a list of uses of the term "balloon"
* A fairy piece used in Four-dimensional chess.
* Balloon framing, a construction technique.
* In mathematics, a balloon is a particular kind of graph.
* Balloon (Music Group) were an early 1990's duo consisting of Ian Bickerton and David Sheppard.
* In property law, balloon payment mortgage

ee also

* Ballon
* Balun, an impedance converter


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