A manned spherical chamber for deep-sea observation, lowered by cable from a ship.
（用缆绳由船上放入水中的）探海球，深海球形潜水器
Example sentencesExamples
Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
Fieldwork costs, for instance, range from plant presses to bathyspheres; hand lenses to DNA probes.
Here we learn of William Beebe, who became famous in the 1920s for studying the ocean in a bathysphere.
The biggest difference between a bathysphere and a bathyscaphe is that the bathysphere is heavier than water and the bathyscaphe is lighter.
Spiders were diving under water in air-filled diving bells long before man invented the submarine or the bathysphere.
Definition of bathysphere in US English:
bathysphere
nounˈbaTHəˌsfirˈbæθəˌsfɪr
A manned spherical chamber for deep-sea observation, lowered by cable from a ship.
（用缆绳由船上放入水中的）探海球，深海球形潜水器
Example sentencesExamples
The biggest difference between a bathysphere and a bathyscaphe is that the bathysphere is heavier than water and the bathyscaphe is lighter.
Here we learn of William Beebe, who became famous in the 1920s for studying the ocean in a bathysphere.
Spiders were diving under water in air-filled diving bells long before man invented the submarine or the bathysphere.
Fieldwork costs, for instance, range from plant presses to bathyspheres; hand lenses to DNA probes.
Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.