semisubmersible

adjective

semi·​sub·​mers·​ible ˌse-mē-səb-ˈmər-sə-bəl 

ˌse-ˌmī-,

-mi-

: being a floating deepwater drilling platform that is towed to a desired location and then partially flooded for stabilization and usually anchored

semisubmersible noun

Examples of semisubmersible in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

About 80 percent of projects plan to use semisubmersible platforms, structures that float partly underwater and are moored to the seabed via chains. —IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023

Gazelle Wind Power The company’s unique design combines the best features of semisubmersible and tension-leg platforms. —IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023

To get an even closer look, clamber into a semisubmersible vessel and view the ocean from a few feet below the surface, or strap on an undersea helmet (complete with speakers and an air-supply hose) and stroll on the seafloor with a biologist guide. —Emily Elert, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2012

But capacity wasn’t the point: This was the first time anyone had put a multimegawatt turbine on a semisubmersible platform in the Atlantic Ocean. —Judith Lewis Mernit, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2021

The platform pictured is a semisubmersible production facility, not a drilling platform. —New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018

Psubs members have been tracking the development of the drug runners’ semisubmersible creations for years. —Jim Popkin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2011

Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for semisubmersible

• irreversible
• reimbursable
• dispersible
• reversible
• submersible
• nonreimbursable