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Fathometer

American  
[fa-thom-i-ter] / fæˈðɒm ɪ tər /
Trademark.

  1. a brand of sonic depth finder.

Fathometer British  
/ fəˈðɒmɪtə /

noun

  1. a type of echo sounder used for measuring the depth of water

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The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one had asked the Fathometer operator for a sounding; the radar plotter had never sent his shoalwater reports to the bridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fathometer soundings showed it was on a steep upward slope of the continental shelf.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles

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