Definition of Diving

Div´ing
a.1.That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle
(Zool.) any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; - called also water tiger.
Diving bell
a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
Diving dress
See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Diving stone
a kind of jasper.


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