Diving adj. That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidae, 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.