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seismograph

Pronunciation:  'sIzmu`graf

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)
 
 See Also: measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Seis"mo*graph\, n. [Gr. ??? an earthquake +
-graph.] (Physics)
An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory
motions of earthquakes.

 

 

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