Meanings
nounbathythermograph (plural bathythermographs)
plural bathythermographs
- A small torpedo-shaped device that holds a temperature sensor and a transducer to detect changes in hydrostatic pressure.
The bathythermograph, an instrument we use to measure the temperature of the sea water, went out of commission.
1959, William R. Anderson, with Clay Blair Jr., Nautilus 90 North, World Publishing Company, page 71
Origin
From bathy- + thermograph or bathy- + thermo- + -graph.
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