| 单词 | bathysphere |
| 释义 | bathysphere[ bath-uh-sfeer ] / ˈbæθ əˌsfɪər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR bathysphere ON THESAURUS.COM noun Oceanography.a spherical diving apparatus from which to study deep-sea life, lowered into the ocean depths by a cable. Origin of bathysphereFirst recorded in 1925–30; bathy- + -sphere Words nearby bathyspherebathymetry, bathypelagic, bathypelagic zone, bathyscaph, bathyscaphe, bathysphere, bathythermogram, bathythermograph, batik, bating, Batinism Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bathysphere
British Dictionary definitions for bathyspherebathysphere / (ˈbæθɪˌsfɪə) / nouna strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for bathyspherebathysphere [ băth′ĭ-sfîr′ ] A hollow, spherical steel diving chamber in which people are lowered by cable from a surface vessel to explore the ocean depths. In 1934 a bathysphere carrying William Beebe and an associate reached a record depth of over 923 m (3,028 ft). Because space in the bathysphere is cramped, dives longer than three-and-a-half hours are intolerable, and it was eventually supplanted by the bathyscaphe. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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