Fathometer

Definition: Fathometer

Fathometer

Noun

1. Depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves.

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Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Fathometer

Title page to manual - "The Submarine Fathometer" Fathometer invented by Herbert Grove Dorsey of the Sub Signal Corporation.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Fathometer Filter From the manual - "The Submarine Fathometer".Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

808 fathometer transducer Hydrographic Manual 1942 Called first portable sonic sounding device First acoustic sounding device used on C&GS sounding boats for shallow water First use of shallow water fathometer continuous records by C&GS.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Prototype "portable" depth recorder used as part of 808 fathometer system Bulletin 13 of the Association of Field Engineers, 1939, p. 102.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Ship on Nantucket Shoals that was subsequently blown up Fathometer record of remains of ship.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Expanded view of fathometer record of remains of ship.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Taking a bar check to calibrate fathometer Note transducer clamped to side of boat - officer on right monitoring fathometer.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Faruno Fathometer display while entering Hood Bay.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Fathometer trace entering Little Port Walter - not much room to spare.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A crewman operates a light-registering fathometer while wearing a home-designed U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey logo embossed work shirt.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bulgarian 

ехолот (echo sounder). (various references)

Chinese 

英寻计. (various references)

Czech

mìřiè hloubky. (various references)

Danish

fathometer, ekkolod (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder, echo sounding, echo sounding machine, sonic depth finder, sounding, ultrasonic sounding). (various references)

Dutch

fathometer, echolood (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder, echo sounding machine, sonic depth finder, source which directs the sound vertically only), dieptemeter (depth gauge attachment, full runner, runner). (various references)

Finnish

kaikuluotain (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder, echo sounding machine, sonic depth finder). (various references)

French

fathomètre, sondeur acoustique, sonde � écho, échosonde. (various references)

German

Tiefenmesser, Echolot (acoustic sounder, asdic, echo depth finder, echo sounder, echo sounding machine, sonar, sonic depth finder), akustisches Lot (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder). (various references)

Greek 

βυθόμετρο (depth ammeter). (various references)

Hungarian

mélységmérõ (depth gauge, lead-line). (various references)

Italian

scandaglio ultrasuono che d� la misura in braccia inglesi, scandaglio ultrasonoro (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder), ecoscandaglio (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder), ecometro (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder). (various references)

Pig Latin

athometerfay

Russian 

эхолот (acoustic sounder, echo sounder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hvatmetar. (various references)

Spanish

sondador por eco (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder), sondador acústico (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounder, sonic sonde, sounder, sounding device, sounding machine), sonda contrastada en brazas. (various references)

Swedish

ekolot, ekolod (acoustic sounder, asdic, echo depth finder, echo sounder, sonar). (various references)

Turkish

derinlikölçer (bathometer), akis sondası. (various references)

Misspellings

"Fathometer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fishometer. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: feather, fermate, formate, mofette, teraohm, terefah, theater, theatre, theorem, thereat, thereof, thereto, thermae.

-4 letters: aether, afreet, emoter, father, fathom, fatter, feater, femora, fetter, foamer, format, formee, hafter, hareem, hatter, heater, hefter, hereat, hereof, hereto, hermae, hetero, hotter, matter, metate, meteor, mother, reheat, remate, remote, reteam, rotate, tether, therme, threat, throat, tother, trefah.

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