bathyscaphe
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French bathyscaphe.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ba‧thy‧scaphe
Noun
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.
- 1972, Oceanology[1], volume 12, numbers 4–6, American Geophysical Union, page 931:
- The fact that the bathyscaphes are self-propelled makes it possible to use them to study the ocean microstructure in the horizontal, although the experiment should include temporal changes, which can be achieved either by using associated buoy stations or using a second suspended bathyscaphe.
- 2001, Robert D. Ballard, Malcolm McConnell, Adventures in Ocean Exploration: From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood[2], page 216:
- It's ironic that when Piccard built his first bathyscaphe in the 1940s people assumed the revolutionary design had evolved from his famous stratospheric balloon. In fact, the reverse was true. In fact, Piccard's prototype bathyscaphe FNRS-2 (named for the Belgian national research foundation), which underwent sea trials in the Atlantic off Senegal in 1948, did possess all the attributes of a clumsy underwater balloon.
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Translations
self-propelled deep-sea submersible
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See also
French
Etymology
Coined by its inventor Auguste Piccard in the 1940s from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”) + σκάφη (skáphē, “little ship”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
bathyscaphe m (plural bathyscaphes)
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See also
Further reading
- “bathyscaphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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