Meaning

1 senses
  1. A miniature radio carried aloft (e.g. by an uncrewed balloon, an airdrop from a crewed aircraft, or a sounding rocket) to automatically transmit measurements of the upper air such as the wind speed, pressure, temperature, and relative humidity to a receiving station on the ground.

    радиозо́ндradiozónd

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
balloon radio:

Origin

From radio + sonde.

From radio + sonde.

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Forms

plural: radiosondes
Singularradiosonde
Pluralradiosondes

regular

Word family

1 related words

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