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Definition of Submergible
1. Adjective. Capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged. "A submergible electric frying pan"
Derivative terms: Submerge, Submerge, Submerge, Submerge, Submerge, Submerge, Submersible, Submersible
Antonyms: Nonsubmersible
Definition of Submergible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Submergible
Literary usage of Submergible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1902)
"The specifications require that these are to be submergible within five minutes.
The ease and certainty with which the Holland and her type can be totally ..."
2. Reboisement in France: Or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the by John Croumbie Brown (1880)
"submergible barrages constitute, strictly speaking, the system which M. Gras claims
the credit of originating. This system is based on a very delicate ..."
3. Notes on Irrigation, Roads & Buildings & on the Water Supply of Towns by William Lumisden Strange (1920)
"(c) submergible Bridges.—The idea of letting small fair- weather flow pass under
a road dam through a slab drain has been developed by designs for a ..."
4. Hearings Beginning March 9, 1908-April 30, 1908 by United States Congress. House. Select committee under House resolution 288. [from old catalog] (1908)
"However, Captain Sampson, afterwards Admiral Sampson, I think in the year 1895,
concluded to recommend that an appropriation be made for a submergible or ..."
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