Search Result for "bathymetry": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. measuring the depths of the oceans;
[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