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seismograph
Part of speech: NounAn instrument for recording the wavelike motions, duration, and direction, of an earthquake: with slight variations, known also as the seismometer.
Usage examples "seismograph":- He followed to the small, far- spaced hut- now snow- buried to its eaves- in which the seismograph ticked away to itself. - "Long Ago, Far Away", William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster.
- I thought the seismograph arrangement was not quite enough after that spring- gun affair, he remarked, so I have put in a sort of teleview of my own invention- so that I can see down into the vestibule downstairs. - "The Exploits of Elaine", Arthur B. Reeve.