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bathysphere

[bath-uh-sfeer]
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noun Oceanography.
  1. a spherical diving apparatus from which to study deep-sea life, lowered into the ocean depths by a cable.
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Origin of bathysphere

First recorded in 1925–30; bathy- + -sphere
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Historical Examples

  • It was not the grapple hooks from his ship, but chains—chains which the man-armed sharks were wrapping around the bathysphere.

    Astounding Stories, August, 1931

    Various

  • It was pried up, and slid off the top of the bathysphere, to crash upon the floor outside.

British Dictionary definitions for bathysphere

bathysphere

noun
  1. a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
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bathysphere in Science

bathysphere

[băth′ĭ-sfîr′]
  1. 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.
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