bathymetry

bathymetry
noun (plural -tries) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: circa 1859 the measurement of water depth at various places in a body of water; also the information derived from such measurements • bathymetric also bathymetrical adjectivebathymetrically adverb

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