Associations to the word «Seismograph»

Wiktionary

SEISMOGRAPH, noun. An instrument that automatically detects and records the intensity, direction and duration of earthquakes and similar events.

Dictionary definition

SEISMOGRAPH, noun. A measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats