Meaning & use
bathysphere
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A spherical steel diving vessel used for deep-sea observation, lowered into the ocean by a cable.
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In the 1930s, explorers used a bathysphere to descend nearly a half mile into the ocean.
The museum exhibit featured a replica of the original bathysphere used in early deep-sea research.
A note on using this word
Bathysphere combines the Greek 'bathys' (deep) and 'sphere'; it was largely superseded by more maneuverable submersibles like the bathyscaphe.
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