单词 | bathyscaphe |
释义 | bathyscaphe/ˈbaθɪskaf /noun chiefly historical A manned submersible vessel of a kind used by the French deep-sea explorer Auguste Piccard (1884–1962).Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning....
Origin1940s: coined in French by its inventor, Auguste Piccard, from Greek bathus 'deep' + skaphos 'ship'. |
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