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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake);


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]
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)