Word of the Day: niskin

Niskin, n.
Oceanogr.

I. attrib.

1. Designating any of various types of seawater sampling bottle which can be opened by remote control from the surface and which are often used in conjunction with electronic probes for in situ measurement of water temperature, pressure, etc.; esp. in Niskin bottle.

1965 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 10 547 The differences in particulate carbonate values between surface bucket and surface Niskin bottle samples are more striking than the differences in organic carbon. 1968 [...].

II. absol.

2. A Niskin bottle.

1992 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 14 920 The correlation coefficient..was lower for the SIPS-Niskin comparison than for the SIPS-pump comparison. [...].