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UK
/səbmˈɜːsəbəl/
]
[ US /səbˈmɝsɪbəɫ/ ]
[ US /səbˈmɝsɪbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an apparatus intended for use under water
- a warship designed to operate under water
ADJECTIVE
-
capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged
a submergible electric frying pan
a submersible pump
How To Use submersible In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump.
- Mrs Allan used her own funds to hire local divers and a submersible camera crew at a cost of £500 per day.
- Add a small water plant in a bonsai dish, rocks, a submersible pump, and a bamboo spout.
- She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water. Distant Shores
- Redness lights the interior of the submersible; the glow from dials and video screens reflects softly off the burnished titanium hull.
- Due to their low submerged speed, most submarines operated as temporarily submersible torpedo boats, largely sailing and often attacking while surfaced.
- He's been down in every imaginable piece of diving gear known to man as well as a wide array of underwater submersibles and crafts.
- The project involves initial drilling and completion of 86 oil and 20 water-injection wells and installing a submersible pump system in each.
- At fifty meters and change, the submersible was a mid-sized Falnari vessel built for touring and very little else—certainly not for teetering on the edge of an abyss. Distant Shores