diving suit

noun

: a waterproof suit with a removable helmet that is worn by a diver who is supplied with air pumped through a tube

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The researchers are working on several aspects of the diving suit technology, including improving durability, adapting the suit for other cockroach and insect species, and integrating additional sensors to enhance functionality. New Atlas, 18 July 2026 What happened when cyborg cockroaches went underwater With the diving suit, the cyborg cockroaches stayed active underwater for up to three hours. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026 Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore 3D-printed a flexible diving suit that roaches wear like a backpack. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 July 2026 His previous book, The Village Idiot (2022), explored the historical reality of the early-twentieth-century School of Paris artists from the dreamlike perspective of the expressionist painter Chaïm Soutine, who trudges beneath the Seine in a diving suit. Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for diving suit

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First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of diving suit was in 1908

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“Diving suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diving%20suit. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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