Meanings
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
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.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan batisfera
- batisferadiving chamber
Chinese Mandarin 潛水球 /潜水球
- 潛水球 /潜水球 (qiánshuǐqiú)diving chamber
Finnish batysfääri
- batysfääridiving chamber
French bathysphère
- bathysphèrediving chamber
German Bathysphäre
- Bathysphärediving chamber
Greek βαθύσφαιρα
- βαθύσφαιρα (vathýsfaira)diving chamber
Italian batisfera
- batisferadiving chamber
Japanese 潜水球
- 潜水球 (sensuikyū)diving chamber
Polish batysfera
- batysferadiving chamber
Portuguese batisfera
- batisferadiving chamber
Russian батисфе́ра
- батисфе́ра (batisféra)diving chamber
Spanish batisfera
- batisferadiving chamber
Cite this entry
bathysphere. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bathysphere
“bathysphere.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bathysphere. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bathysphere,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bathysphere.
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