bathysphere

n. 深海球形潜水器 [医] 球形潜水器

发音

UK /ˈbæθɪˌsfɪə(ɹ)/

词形变化

bathyspheres 复数 bathyspheres

释义与例句

n.
  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.

    潜水球

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

submersible

词源

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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