"instrument for measuring the motions of an earthquake," 1858, from seismo- + -graph. Based on Italian sismografo, coined and invented by Luigi Palmieri (1807-1896), director of meteorological observation on Mount Vesuvius. Related: Seismographic; seismography (1865).
双语例句
1. The earliest seismograph was invented by a Chinese named Zhangheng in the Han dynasty.
中国汉代的张衡最早发明地震仪。
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2. Today, quartz crystal clocks are generally used on the seismograph stations.
目前, 地震台站一般采用石英晶体钟.
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3. These things entail that the seismograph becomes rather bully.
这使得地震仪体积笨重.
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4. A seismometer is a seismograph whose physical constants are so well known.
地震计是一种地震仪器,其物理常数是已知的.
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5. Any earthquake at any distance from a calibrated seismograph is nowadays assingned a magnitude.
