Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that indicates the occurrence or time of occurrence of an earthquake.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the simpler form of seismometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A seismometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
instrument that indicates theoccurrence of anearthquake
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Chinese inventions and innovations include silk cloth, gunpowder, paper making, moveable type, the compass, and the seismoscope.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Chinese inventions and innovations include silk cloth, gunpowder, paper making, moveable type, the compass, and the seismoscope.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Chinese inventions and innovations include silk cloth, gunpowder, paper making, moveable type, the compass, and the seismoscope.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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First is the seismoscope, which will merely detect and record the fact that there has been such a tremor.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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A: T he 2 main devices used to measure earthquake are the seismograph and the seismoscope.
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