seismograph
(noun) a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
seismograph (plural seismographs)
An instrument that automatically detects and records the intensity, direction and duration of earthquakes and similar events.
Source: Wiktionary
Seis"mo*graph, n. Etym: [Gr. -graph.] (Physics)
Definition: An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
