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[syn: bathymetry, plumbing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bathymetry \Ba*thym"e*try\, n. [Gr. ba`qos depth + -metry.]
The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the
sea.
[1913 Webster] bathyscaph
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bathymetry
n 1: measuring the depths of the oceans [syn: bathymetry,
plumbing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, water