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bathymetry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bathymetry has 1 sense
- bathymetry(n = noun.act) plumbing - measuring the depths of the oceans; Array is a kind of measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration
Derived forms adjective bathymetric1, adjective bathymetrical1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bathymetry, n. [Gr. ba`qos depth + -metry.].
The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea. [1913 Webster]
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bathymetry
altimetry, aquiculture, bathometry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartography, chorography, craniometry, depth sounding, echo sounding, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hydrography, hypsography, hypsometry, marine biology, mensuration, metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry, sonar, sounding, soundings, stereometry, surveying, thalassography, topography, waterROGET THESAURUS
bathymetry
Depth
N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.
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