单词 | bathysphere |
释义 | bathyspheren. A spherical diving apparatus for deep-sea observation. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel diving-engine1601 diving-bella1684 submarine boat1713 bellc1715 diving-bladder1753 boat1802 diving-boat1802 bell-vessel1816 submarine1828 nautilus1875 submersible1900 bathysphere1930 bathyscaphe1947 mesoscaphe1955 1930 W. Beebe in Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. XXXIII. 203/1 When I was writing the name of a deep-sea fish—Bathytroctes—the appropriateness of the Greek prefix occurred to me: I coined the word Bathysphere, and the name has stuck. 1931 New Statesman 21 Mar. 142/1 They crossed the yellow beam of the search-light from the bathysphere. 1947 Sci. News 5 67 ‘Bathyspheres’ —closed diving chambers maintained at normal atmospheric pressure—..are provided with a tripod-type base to give stability, and the job of the occupant is to chart the variation in the strength of gravity, when he is moved from one position to another over the sea bed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1930 |
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