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Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is an American aluminum packaging company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, famous for the Ball canning jar before pivoting to beverage cans in 1969.
Ball culture
Ball culture (ballroom, house-ball community) is an LGBTQ+ subculture founded by Black and Latino queer and trans people in New York, with judged balls, vogue dance, and chosen-family houses; the modern scene dates to Crystal LaBeija's House of LaBeija in the early 1970s.
Ball grid array
A ball grid array (BGA) is an integrated-circuit package with solder balls on its underside, carrying far more connections than a leaded package of the same size.
Ball in the Family
Ball in the Family, American reality series premiering August 29, 2017 on Facebook Watch, following LaVar, Tina, Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball; Bunim/Murray-produced, 24 million premiere viewers, episodes lengthened after viewer comments.
Ball joint
A ball joint, or spherical joint, is an automotive bearing connecting a control arm or steering link to the steering knuckle, allowing suspension motion and steering simultaneously.
Ball lightning
Ball lightning, also known as globular lightning, is a rarely observed phenomenon in which luminous spheres, typically 20 to 50 cm wide, appear during thunderstorms.
Ball Lightning (球状闪电_(电视剧))
Ball Lightning (球状闪电) is an upcoming 30-episode iQIYI Chinese sci-fi web drama adapted from Liu Cixin's 2004 novel, directed by Dai Mo, supervised by Chen Sicheng, starring Tong Yao and Wang Anyu; filmed 2022, licensed 2025, trailer 2026, air date pending.
Ball mill
A ball mill, also called a tumbling mill, is a rotating cylindrical grinder in which steel balls crush and grind material, used mainly in mineral processing and cement manufacture.
Ball of Fire
Ball of Fire is a 1941 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, written by Brackett and Wilder from the story "From A to Z", a Snow White-style tale of professors and slang, with four Oscar nominations.
Ball of the Century
Ball of the Century: Shane Warne's first Ashes delivery, a leg break that bowled Mike Gatting at Old Trafford on 4 June 1993, named by Robin Marlar and regarded as cricket's most famous ball.
Ball Pivoting Algorithm
The ball pivoting algorithm (BPA) is a surface reconstruction method that turns a 3D point cloud into a triangle mesh by rolling a virtual ball over the points, published in 1999.
Ball powder
Ball powder is a form of smokeless propellant with generally spherical grains, developed in the 1930s by Fred Olsen at Western Cartridge Company in Illinois.
Ball python
The ball python, also called the royal python (Python regius), is a small, non-venomous snake native to West and Central Africa that coils into a ball when threatened.
Ball screw
A ball screw is a mechanical linear actuator that converts rotary motion into linear motion with very low friction, using recirculating steel balls between a screw shaft and a nut.
Ball spline
A ball spline is a linear motion guide whose nut slides along a grooved shaft on recirculating steel balls, transmitting torque at the same time.
Ball State University
Ball State University is a public doctoral university in Muncie, Indiana, founded in 1918 as Indiana State Normal School Eastern Division and renamed Ball State University in 1965, with seven colleges, over 20,000 students, and HLC accreditation.
Ball tampering
Ball tampering in cricket: illegally changing the match ball's condition (sandpaper, mints, bottle tops, sweetened saliva) to aid swing. Key cases: Waqar 2000 first ban, Tendulkar 2001, 2006 forfeited Oval Test, 2018 Sandpapergate, COVID saliva ban.
Ball valve
A ball valve is a quarter-turn valve that starts or stops flow by rotating a bored ball 90 degrees, prized for tight shutoff and common in industrial, pipeline, and plumbing service.
Ball wheel
A ball wheel is a wheel whose rolling element is a sphere rather than a disk, giving robots omnidirectional motion, including rotation in place, without steering.
Ball x Pit
Ball x Pit (BALL x PIT), by Kenny Sun and Friends, published by Devolver Digital, is a 2025 brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite released October 15, 2025; sold 300,000 copies in five days, over 1 million total, on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch.
Ball's Pyramid
Ball's Pyramid (Balls Pyramid) is a volcanic sea stack 23 km southeast of Lord Howe Island, Australia, part of the 1982 World Heritage Lord Howe Island Group and the only wild refuge of the critically endangered Lord Howe Island phasmid, rediscovered there in 2001.
Balla Fasseke
Balla Fasseke is the griot of Mandinka oral tradition who served Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire, and is regarded as ancestor of the Kouyate griots.
Ballachulish
Ballachulish (Baile a' Chaolais) is a Lochaber village at the narrows of Loch Leven, Scotland, centred on slate quarries worked 1693–1955; ferry 1733–1975, replaced by the Ballachulish Bridge.
Ballad
Ballad: a narrative folk song or poem in ABCB quatrains with alternating 4-3-4-3 stresses, orally transmitted; distinct from the French fixed-form ballade and from the modern slow love song.
Ballad in Russian poetry
The ballad (баллада) in Russian poetry is a lyric-epic verse genre of mysterious, dramatic plots set at liminal places, established as a literary genre by Vasily Zhukovsky in 1808.
Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl
ballad of a homeschooled girl is an Olivia Rodrigo song, track 5 on her 2023 album GUTS, written with Dan Nigro. A pop-punk track about social anxiety, it reflects her homeschooled child-actor upbringing and was nominated for the 2024 Grammy for Best Rock Song.
Ballad of a Small Player
Ballad of a Small Player is a 2025 Edward Berger psychological thriller for Netflix, adapted from Lawrence Osborne's 2014 novel, starring Colin Farrell as fugitive gambler Lord Doyle in Macau, with Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton; released theatrically October 15 and streaming October 29, 2025.
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате)
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате) is Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 Mosfilm drama about soldier Alyosha Skvortsov's six-day leave home across wartime Russia; Cannes special prize 1960, Lenin Prize 1961, Oscar-nominated screenplay.
Ballad of Beautiful Women
Ballad of Beautiful Women (Lì Rén Xíng, 丽人行) is a satirical narrative poem by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 753 about the Yang family's extravagance.
Ballad of Mulan
The Ballad of Mulan (木蘭辭) is an anonymous Chinese folk ballad of the Northern Dynasties about a woman who serves in the army in her father's place.