BALLARAT (Ballarat), city in the south of Australia. 61 thousand inhabitants (1983.) Center of area of gold mining. A machine industry, textile, a food-processing industry.

BALLARI (Bellari), city in India, on r. Hagari, pieces. Karnataka. 245 thousand inhabitants (1991.) Center of a cotton-growing area. Textile, sugar, a metal-working industry.

BALLAS, version of diamond, small-sized spherical radiative units.

BALLAST (niderl. ballast).. 1) freight (water, sand, etc.), placed on a vessel for improvement of his seagoing capacities... 2) Freight for regulation of jacking ability of the aeronautic apparatus (napr., an air balloon)... 3) the Layer by the way a fine-bored cushion from bulk materials (a crushed rock, etc.), stowed on a road level railway ways.

BALLENI ISLANDS (Balleny), volcanic islands in the south of Quiet ok., bliz Antarctica. An altitude up to 1524 m. Are coated with icehouses.

BALLI (Baji) (Bally) Charles (1865-1947), French jazykoved, follower Ô. de Sossjura. Activities on general both French leksikologii and stylistics, a general theory of tongue.

BALLISTA (from an armour. ballista), the propellant machine in an antiquity (up to kon. 5 century); comprised of a horizontal frame with the gutter and a vertical timber frame with a side rail from braided filaments (tendons, etc.), with which help gear (the stone, a log, a boom, etc.) was issued in the purpose. Distance of throwing of 400-800 m, light booms up to 1000 m.

BALLISTICS (a nem. Ballistik, from grech. ballo - I throw), science about motion of the ammunition gears, unguided missiles, mines, charges, bullets at shooting (start-up). The interior ballastics studies a shot travel (or in other conditions limiting motion) under action of powder gases, external - after his flying out from a bore.

The BALLISTICS JUDICIAL, section of criminalistics, studies a technique of investigation of crimes, the bound with application of fire-arms and an ammunition to it.

BALLISTITES (ballistitnye powders), nitroglycerol smokeless powders.

The BALLISTIC MISSILE, after cutoff of engines flies on a ballistic curve.

BALLISTIC CURVE, mechanical trajectory loosely a projectile under action only gravity. A mechanical trajectory of such body in an atmosphere at equal or close to zero attitude of a upward force to an aerodynamic drag also call as a ballistic curve.

The BALLISTIC GALVANOMETER, has concerning a major moment of inertia of a movement; it is applied to measurement of trace amounts of an electricity at short-time pulses of a current. Outcome read out on t. n. To a ballistic maximum deflection - to the greatest deviation of the index.

BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY (from grech. ballo - I throw, kardia - heart and... grafija), one of research techniques of activity of heart. Consists of registration of mechanic motions of a body of the person, stipulated by cordial reductions and motion of blood on large vessels.

BOTTLE (frants. ballon, from ital. pallone - a ball), the gas-tight environment made depending on destination from metals, polymers, tissues, glasses, etc., napr., a bottle of the automobile (t. n. The chamber), a bottle of the electronic device, a bottle (vessel) for a storage and transportations of gases.

BALLONNAJA ASTRONOMY, astronomical probes from the air balloons raised on an altitude from 20 up to 40 km, where influence of an atmosphere on outcomes of supervision insignificantly.

BALLOT (from ital. ballotare - to elect spheres), a kind of voting. In 18-19 centuries implemented omitting in a special litter bin of black and white spheres (balls). To run for - to exhibit the candidature at elections.

BALMASHEV Stepan Valerianovich (1881-1902), eser, the student. 2.4.1902 has shot Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia D.S.Sipjagina. It is hung up.