bathysphere
A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are…A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe.
» The bathysphere is a new technology for undersea travel.
Meaning
1 sensesA spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe.
Bathysphäre
батисфе́раbatisféra
spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration
Examples
2 sentencesThe bathysphere is a new technology for undersea travel.
The scientists used a bathysphere to explore the depths of the ocean.
Translations
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Origin
From bathy- + -sphere. A genericization from the particular bathysphere in the 1930s namedFrom bathy- + -sphere. A genericization from the particular bathysphere in the 1930s named Bathysphere. The name bathysphere was coined decades after the introduction of the device in the 1890s.
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Forms
plural: bathyspheres| Singular | bathysphere |
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