Definition of submersible
: capable of being submerged
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Boeing and Lockheed Martin recently were named finalists in the U.S. Navy’s Orca Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater vehicle project, which aims to develop big submersible drones capable of handling long-distance missions with significant payloads.
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The face of one of the occupants is just visible through one of the submersible round ports.
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The weeklong expedition to the Andrea Doria, organized by submersible company OceanGate, was designed to collect information on the current condition of the wreck.
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Buy a submersible small fountain pump with a flow control valve at most any hardware store.
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In the last decade, traffickers also have begun using semi-submersible ships designed to be barely visible on the ocean’s surface.
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Use any sort of small submersible fountain pump with a flow control valve.
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The face of one of the occupants is just visible through one of the submersible round ports.
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Experts disagreed over whether China’s seizure of the submersible drone was intended as a signal to Mr. Trump, or even authorized by Mr. Xi.
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First Known Use of submersible
1807
Definition of submersible
: something that is submersible;
especially
: a usually small underwater craft used especially for deep-sea research
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The center is home to a full-size model of the submersible Alvin, famous for its exploration of the wreck of the Titanic.
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The free-swimming submersibles will be equipped with cameras and sensors for temperature and salinity along with sonar capable of looking upward at the bottom of the ice shelf as well as downward at the seafloor.
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The shark is threatening the crew of a deep-sea submersible — part of an international undersea observation program — and much more.
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Although critical for studying the ocean, remote operated vehicles and submersibles can be expensive to build and operate.
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Somewhat appropriately, a pair of married deep-sea explorers took the video in 2016, from a submersible about half a mile underwater near the Azores islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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The submersible the Jakobsens used to film the anglerfish has been in operation since 2013.
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But most of all, Barry—whose emotions seem to have been buried somewhere so deep that James Cameron in a submersible couldn’t find them—is enthralled by the process of acting itself.
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The video was captured at a depth of 800 meters by deep-sea explorers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen in a submersible.
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First Known Use of submersible
1900
SUBMERSIBLE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of submersible for English Language Learners
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: able to be used underwater
submersible
Definition of submersible for English Language Learners
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: a small vehicle that can operate underwater and that is used especially for research
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