Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to measure the depth of water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus, consisting of a spring-balance of peculiar construction, used for ascertaining the depth of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instrument that measures the
depth ofwater
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instrument that measures the depth of water
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bathometer, or attraction-meter, was brought out in 1876, and exhibited at the Loan Exhibition in South
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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Just as the latter instrument indicates the pressure of the atmosphere above it, so the bathometer was intended to show the pull of the earth below it; and experiment proved, we believe, that for every 1,000 fathoms of sea-water below the ship, the total gravity of the mercury was reduced by 1/3200 part.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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He'll also make waves in the art world and in politics., was the co-inventor of cerographic sterotypy (a wax-based printing process), and he improved the bathometer (for measuring water depth).
Wired Top Stories Randy Alfred 2010
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Malpractice attorney firstborn practicably domestic scrum and bathometer to hooker painstaking, meliorative, and extempore candor.
Rational Review 2009
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It is always interesting to trace the necessity which directly or indirectly was the parent of a particular invention; and in the great importance of an accurate record of the sea-depth in which a cable is being laid, together with the tedious and troublesome character of ordinary sounding by the lead-line, especially when a ship is actually paying out cable, we may find the requirements which led to the invention of the 'bathometer,' an instrument designed to indicate the depth of water over which a vessel is passing without submerging a line.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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