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SEISMOGRAPH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seismograph mean?
• SEISMOGRAPH (noun)
The noun SEISMOGRAPH has 1 sense:
1. a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)
Familiarity information: SEISMOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("seismograph" is a kind of...):
measuring device; measuring instrument; measuring system (instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something)
Context examples
Researchers listened to more than a year's worth of Earth's rumblings, from ambient noise to actual earthquakes, using a network of 19 ocean-bottom seismographs deployed across the Mariana Trench, along with seven island-based seismographs.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
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