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Bathysphere

//ˈbæθɪˌsfɪə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration wordnet

Etymology

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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