Balloon (disambiguation)
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A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) confining a gas. Balloon may also refer to:
Types of balloon
- Balloon (aeronautics)
- Tethered balloon or moored balloon or captive balloon, a balloon that is restrained by one or more tethers attached to the ground and so cannot float freely
- Tethered helium balloon
- Toy balloon
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
- Balloon (1982 film), an Indian Malayalam film by Ravi Gupthan starring Mammootty
- Balloon (2017 film), a Tamil film by Sinish starring Jai, Anjali, and Janani Iyer
- Balloon (2018 film) about the East German balloon escape
- Balloon (2019 film), a Chinese film
Music
- Balloon (band)
- "Balloons" (song), a song by Foals
- Keina Suda, Japanese musician who also produced Vocaloid music as "Balloon"
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Balloon (game)
- Balloon (Merse), an 1878 painting by Pál Szinyei Merse
- BBC One 'Balloon' idents, better known as simply "Balloon", a series of television idents for BBC One from 1997 to 2000
- Balloon, member of one of the classes of fairy chess pieces
- Speech balloon, including thought balloon, scream balloon, etc.
- Balloon Battle, a gameplay mode in Nintendo's Mario Kart series
Computing and technology
- Balloon help, a help system introduced by Apple Computer in their 1991 release of System 7.0
- Balloon, blown up short pin able to carry an indicating letter within as markers for positions on maps, as in Google maps
- Balloon hashing is a key derivation function to securely compute hashes for passwords
Economics and finance
- Balloon payment mortgage
- Balloon, economic bubble
Transportation
- Balloon loop, a track system to allow trains to reverse direction
- English Electric Balloon tram, type of double-deck tramcar used in Blackpool, England
Other uses
- Balloon (typeface)
- Construction technique of balloon framing
- Snifter, Brandy balloon
- Trial balloon, action to covertly gauge public interest
See also
- Air balloon (disambiguation)
- Ballon (disambiguation)
- Ballooning (disambiguation)
- Balun, an impedance converter
- Blimp
- Bloons
- List of balloon uses, terms containing the word
- Pig bladder
- Pneumatic bladder
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