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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: diving sphere
Antonyms: none provided
noun
spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: submersible
History
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.
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