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seismoscope|ˈsaɪzməʊskəʊp|
[f. seismo- + -scope.]
A simple form of seismometer; a contrivance for detecting or indicating the occurrence of an earthquake shock, sometimes also indicating (without measuring) the intensity or direction of the earthquake wave.
1851Mallet in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 278 This instrument I have named the Seismoscope. 1887G. H. Darwin in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 263 An instrument which tells only that there has been a shock, without giving a record of the nature of the movement, is called a seismoscope.
Hence seismoˈscopic a.
1882Milne in Nature 26 Oct. 627/2 The records of most of the older forms of seismographs and seismometers,..can only be regarded as seismoscopic. |