Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The record of an earth tremor made by a seismograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The record made by a seismograph or seismometer; the result of an earthquake-shock as exhibited on the instrument or instruments employed, these varying in character and in the manner in which the elements of the shock are recorded. See
seismometer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology The graphical out-put from an
accelerograph orseismograph .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the graphical record of an earth tremor made by using a seismograph
Etymologies
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Examples
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The seismogram from the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory is also nifty, when their webserver isn’t swamped!
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The seismogram from the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory is also nifty, when their webserver isn’t swamped!
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Earthquake waves are recorded by a seismograph and the recording of waves on paper is called seismogram
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Earthquake waves are recorded by a seismograph and the recording of waves on paper is called seismogram
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The first indication of a nuclear explosion is when the actual seismogram differs from typical seismograms found in the region.
The scientific vacuity of ID: design inference versus "Design Inference" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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And finally scientists compare the seismogram with earlier seismograms of similar events.
The scientific vacuity of ID: design inference versus "Design Inference" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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"We're just beginning to eke out every wiggle on the seismogram and what it's telling us," says Wallace.
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Like the wonk he is, Vidale also broke the play down into a time series and compared it with the squiggles on the seismogram.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A seismogram shows the tremors from the Ripon earthquake
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Artist Luke Jerram has converted a seismogram of the devastating earthquake that took place in Japan in March into a 3-D-printed sculpture.
Wired Top Stories Olivia Solon 2011
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