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BATHYMETRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bathymetry mean?
• BATHYMETRY (noun)
The noun BATHYMETRY has 1 sense:
1. measuring the depths of the oceans
Familiarity information: BATHYMETRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Measuring the depths of the oceans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bathymetry; plumbing
Hypernyms ("bathymetry" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Derivation:
bathymetric; bathymetrical (of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes)
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