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SEISMOGRAPH

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

• SEISMOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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