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Definition of Submersible

1. Noun. An apparatus intended for use under water.

2. Adjective. Capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged. "A submergible electric frying pan"

3. Noun. A warship designed to operate under water.

Definition of Submersible

1. Adjective. Able to be submerged. ¹

2. Noun. (British) A small nonmilitary, non-nuclear submarine for exploration. ¹

3. Noun. (British) A retroactive term used for non-nuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed "true submarines". ¹

4. Noun. (British) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed "true submersibles", because they cannot retroactively declare that their non-nuclear submarines should be called by a different name. ¹

5. Noun. (American English) A very small "baby" submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications. Slang synonyms: midget-submarine, anchor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Submersible

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Submersible

submentoplasty submentum submenu submenus submerge submergeable submerged submergence submergences submerges

submergible submerging submerse submersed submerses submersible (current term) submersible warship submersibles submersing submersion

submersions submesoscale submesoscales submetacentric submetacentrics submetallic submeter submetered submetering submeters

Literary usage of Submersible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1994)
"The value of the lockout submersible to the scientist lies in its high ... The pilot can station the submersible so that the work site is directly in front ..."

2. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke (1917)
"Arthur Conan Doyle THE PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED submersible NOVEMBER, 1916 THE AMERICAN WHAT was it kept you so long, brave German submersible? ..."

3. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke (1917)
"THE CAPTAIN OP THE submersible: Oh, do not be impatient, good friends of this neutral land, That we have been so tardy in reaching your eager strand. ..."

4. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke (1917)
"Arthur Conan Doyle THE PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED submersible NOVEMBER, 1916 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: WHAT was it kept you so long, brave German submersible? ..."

5. Information Annual (1916)
"The submersible was compelled to abandon its attack and to submerge. October Routing German squadrons sent to aid shipping in the Baltic, British submarines ..."

6. The World Flat-globe and International Geographical History of the World by World flat-globe corporation, Joseph Edmund Woodman, Robert Edwin Peary (1919)
"submersible Ships.—The idea of submarine navigation is 300 years old, but in a modern sense dates from about 1885, when Holland's plans were first made ..."

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