bathyscaphe
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Borrowing from French, from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathus, “deep”) + σκάφη (skaphē, “little ship”). Coined in 1940s by Auguste Piccard, the inventor of the bathyscaphe.
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Wikipedia bathyscaphe (plural bathyscaphes)
- A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol
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self-propelled deep-sea submersible
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathus, “deep”) + σκάφη (skaphē, “little ship”). Coined in 1940s by Auguste Piccard, the inventor of the bathyscaphe.
Noun [edit]
bathyscaphe m (plural bathyscaphes)