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seismograph 

2 definitions found
 for seismograph
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


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


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  seismograph
      n 1: a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the
           intensity and direction and duration of movements of the
           ground (as an earthquake)