bathymeter

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. An instrument for taking soundings at sea.
  2. A simple apparatus for gaging the depth of liquids in wells and tanks. It consists of an air-tube dipping into the liquid to be measured, and an air-compressor connected both with this tube and with a reservoir of liquid into which there dips a gage-glass. When the air-compressor is worked the liquid rises in the gage until the pressure is sufficient to force air out of the bottom of the air-tube.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (0)

We're constantly adding new words to Wordnik, so please check back soon.

 

Tags

bathymeter hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 18 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Greek βαθύς, deep, + μέτρον, a measure.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

self-hatred · Steppes · crabby · gherkins · hydro

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey