Get to know Piccard better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Piccard in a sentence
Piccard meaning
A surname from French.
Using Piccard
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from French.
- In the example corpus, piccard often appears in combinations such as: piccard and, jacques piccard, auguste piccard.
Context around Piccard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Piccard
- In this selection, "piccard" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jacques, auguste, fact, invented and citation stand out and add context to how "piccard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1950s auguste piccard invented the and after jacques piccard citation they. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "piccard" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with piccard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Piccard is said to have responded with encouraging words. (9 words)
Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh inside the pressurised sphere onboard the Trieste. (12 words)
In the 1950s, Auguste Piccard invented the bathyscaphe and used the Trieste to investigate the ocean's depths. (18 words)
The producers of the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation named the ship's captain " Jean-Luc Picard " after Jacques Piccard. citation They would later name one of the show's starships the U.S.S. Trieste, after the bathyscaphe. (41 words)
Some technologies enabled the exploration of new worlds such as the pressurized balloon of Auguste Piccard and the Bathyscaphe which permitted Jacques Piccard to reach the deepest point of the world's oceans. (33 words)
In fact, Piccard and Walsh's journey to the depths in 1960 was so foolhardy and difficult to achieve that it would be another 52 years later until another human would visit. (32 words)
Example sentences (10)
Some technologies enabled the exploration of new worlds such as the pressurized balloon of Auguste Piccard and the Bathyscaphe which permitted Jacques Piccard to reach the deepest point of the world's oceans.
In fact, Piccard and Walsh's journey to the depths in 1960 was so foolhardy and difficult to achieve that it would be another 52 years later until another human would visit.
Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh inside the pressurised sphere onboard the Trieste.
Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan Slat won in 2014, while scientist-explorer Bertrand Piccard, and developer of Earth Brian McClendon won the award in 2013.
As related by Auguste's son Jacques Piccard to fellow deep-sea explorer Hans Fricke, cited in: Fricke H. Der Fisch, der aus der Urzeit kam, pp. 23–24.
In the 1950s, Auguste Piccard invented the bathyscaphe and used the Trieste to investigate the ocean's depths.
On 23 January 1960, she reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh.
Piccard is said to have responded with encouraging words.
Some of the original designs for the power transmission plants were created by the Swiss firm Faesch & Piccard, which also constructed the original 5,000 HP waterwheels.
The producers of the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation named the ship's captain " Jean-Luc Picard " after Jacques Piccard. citation They would later name one of the show's starships the U.S.S. Trieste, after the bathyscaphe.
Common combinations with piccard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- piccard and 5×
- jacques piccard 5×
- auguste piccard 2×
- piccard to 2×