How to pronounce bathysphere
American English pronunciation
BATH-ih-sfeer
- IPA
- /ˈbæθɪˌsfɪɹ/
- Syllables
- BATH · ih · sfeer (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What bathysphere means
A steel ball lowered on a cable to explore the deep sea
In a sentence: The scientists squeezed into the bathysphere and sank slowly into the dark ocean.
Where it comes from: It was made from the Greek bathy-, meaning deep, and sphere. It started as the name of one particular diving ball in the 1930s.
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