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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Diving \Div"ing\, a. That dives or is used or diving. [1913 Webster] Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscid[ae], which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger. Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. Diving stone, a kind of jasper. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

diving bell n 1: diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air