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seismograph, n. and v.|ˈsaɪzməʊgrɑːf, -æ-|
Also sismo-.
[f. seismo- + -graph. Cf. It. sismografo (Palmieri), F. sismographe.]
An instrument for recording automatically the phenomena of earthquakes.
1858C. V. Walker tr. De la Rive's Electricity III. 508 An apparatus..which he [Palmieri] has designated, under the name of Electro-magnetic Seismograph. 1862Times 6 Jan. 10/2 How long the eruption might continue Palmieri had no means of calculating; it was going on as violently as ever, and his sismograph was always registering. 1887G. H. Darwin in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 262 Instruments by which the motion of the ground during an earthquake is recorded on an accurate scale of time..are called seismographs, or recording seismometers.
transf.1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. xi. 176 His soul..like a delicate spiritual seismograph, responded at once to the least tremble of a neighbouring soul.
attrib.1904Brownell Hrt. Japan xxvi. 88/2 Thousands of seismograph records.
Hence ˈseismograph v. trans. and intr., to study (a region) by means of seismography; to prospect for oil by seismic methods; seisˈmographer, a seismologist (Cent. Dict. 1891); seismoˈgraphic, seismoˈgraphical adjs., connected with, furnished by, or relating to a seismograph; of or pertaining to seismography; seismoˈgraphically adv. (fig. in quot. 1964); seisˈmography, the descriptive science of earthquakes; also, the use of the seismograph in recording disturbances of the crust of the earth.
1858Mallet in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. Pl. 11 Seismographic Map of the World. 1865Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2), Seismography. 1905Edin. Rev. Apr. 310 Mr. Oldham distinguishes three types of pulsation in the seismographic records of distant shocks. 1925M. Mühlberg in I. A. Stigand Outl. Occurrence & Geol. of Petroleum 218 The times of arrival are recorded seismographically. 1940Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining & Metall. Engineers CXXXVIII. 305 (heading) Continuous profiling method of seismographing for oil structures. 1964New Statesman 10 Apr. 577/1 In the quintessential Hanley lodging-house, every creak or whisper registered seismographically. 1968C. Helmericks Down Wild River North xxvi. 423 They go ‘seismographing’ right overland through the wilderness. 1969J. W. Mavor Voyage to Atlantis ix. 203 Dr Marinatos suggested we seismograph the whole field in order to determine whether the Minoan layer was relatively level and therefore a logical town site. |