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- adjective Being below the bottom of something.
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sub- + bottom
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We can monitor the ship's position, heading and speed; wind speed and direction; activity throughout the ship on the closed-circuit TV system; the firing status of each of the 10 air guns; the subbottom profiler; the multibeam; and the geometry of the hydrophone array, in depth and in map view, strung out behind us, extending six kilometers back toward where we've been.
NYT > Home Page By BERNARD COAKLEY 2011
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