Nansenadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnansn/, U.S.

/ˈnæns(ə)n/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nansen.

Etymology: < the name of Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian statesman and explorer, who devised the water sampler and was responsible for the issue of the Nansen passport.

A. adj.

1. Oceanography.

a. Designating a device used to collect samples of seawater from a chosen depth, consisting of a container that is tripped shut by means of a weight or messenger slid down the cable from the ship.

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1908 J. Johnstone Conditions of Life in Sea i. 11 In the Nansen-Pettersson water bottle a reversing thermometer is usually attached to the frame of the instrument and is reversed when the messenger springs a catch at the same time as closing the bottle.

1937 Coast Guard Bull. (U.S. Treasury Dept.) xix. 17 In filling the sample bottles from Nansen bottles the sample bottle was half filled, shaken, emptied, and again half filled and emptied before filling with the sample.

1966 Science 23 Dec. 1540/2 Scarcity of reliable data has been attributed to the contamination of water samples by brass water-sampling bottles (Nansen bottles) used in the past.

1992 Jrnl. Fisheries Soc. Taiwan 19 151 Sampling action of a cast of Nansen bottles was recorded.

b. Designating a hydrocast made using Nansen bottles.

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1963 Deep-sea Res. 10 757 (heading) Microbiological sampling with a piggy-back device during routine Nansen bottle casts.

1964 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 9 576/2 The data include water temperatures..measured with protected reversing thermometers during Nansen casts taken every 3 hr.

1987 Marine Geol. 75 185 The basin was investigated in some detail by means of ten precision-positioned piston and gravity cores, one Nansen-bottle hydrocast and three CTD [sc. conductivity temperature depth] stations.

1995 Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Sci. 41 325 Water masses characteristics of the northern Aegean Sea were investigated based upon historical Nansen cast data.

2. Nansen passport n. a document of identification issued after the First World War (1914–18) to a stateless person ineligible for a passport. Now historical.The Nansen passport gave its bearer freedom of movement, but did not automatically entail the right of return to the issuing country.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > authorization to travel to, from, or in a country > [noun] > document > type of or substitute for

tezkere1612

dastak1748

yellow card1892

triptyque1908

exit visa1911

travel document1921

Nansen passport1925

tourist card1971

Nansen1975

1925 Measures to help Refugees: Rep. 5th Comm. to 6th Assembly League of Nations 1 After lengthy negotiations, the Refugee Service has secured recognition for the Nansen Passports.

1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 50 Nansen passports..were for a time a resort for the multitude of people who had lost their national standing through changes of boundaries and similar dislocations.

1990 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 84 609 Nansen, even without funding, gave refugees protection and created the ‘Nansen Passport’.

B. n.

A Nansen passport. historical. rare.

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