bathysphere
bat·hysp·here
noun
1.
spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration
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.
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