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Hot air ballooning Hot air ballooning is the recreational and competitive Extreme sport, adventure sport of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of balloon (aircraft), ballooning include the exceptional quiet (except when the propane burners are firing), th ...

Balloon (aeronautics) In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy. A balloon may be free, moving with the wind, or tethered to a fixed point. It is distinct from an airship, which is a powered aerostat tha ...

Ballooning (spider) Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more Gossamer (spider silk), gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at t ...

Ballooning degeneration In histopathology, ballooning degeneration, formally ballooning degeneration of hepatocytes, is a form of liver parenchymal cell (i.e. hepatocyte) death. The name is derived from the fact that the cells undergoing this form of cell death inc ...

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Memory ballooning In computing, memory ballooning is a technique that is used to eliminate the need to overcommit host memory used by virtual machines (VMs) by letting each VM effectively "give back" unused pages of irtualmemory. To implement memory ballooning, ...

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