bathysphere
See also: bathysphère
English
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Etymology
[edit]From 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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bathysphere (plural bathyspheres)
- 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.
- Synonym: diving sphere
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[edit]Translations
[edit]diving chamber
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