Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as seismologist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who measures and records earthquakes and other ground vibrations.
  • noun A person who studies such records, a seismologist.

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Examples

  • The seismographer surveyors marked all the roads the crews were supposed to follow with two big bundles of fluorescent flagging.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • Whilst the learned seismographer eats his dinner, cheerfully unconscious of the coming earthquake, his dog shivers beneath the table.

    Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Awesome video idea … a seismographer turned into a sound channel grapher!

    GNUCITIZEN Comments 2008

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