seismogramme

seismogramme

See also: Seismogramme

English

Noun

seismogramme (plural seismogrammes)

1. (rare) British spelling spelling of seismogram
   • 1962, Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., Geophysics Series, Issues 1–6,page 112:

     In 1954, Benioff analyzed the seismogramme of the Kamchatka earthquake of 1952 and found a phase with a period of 57 minutes . . .

   • 1976, J. B. Kloosterman, Catastrophist Geology,page 50:

     Cover design based on a seismogramme registered on the 18th and 19th of November 1900 during a 'seismic tempest' in Japan.

   • 1979 C. Bernstein, Language:

     To compare a book to a seismogramme is a mistaken analogy in so far as, I know from experience, simple registering is not involved . . .

   • 1986, A. S. Elnashai, K. Pilakoutas, "The Kalamata (Greece) Earthquake of 13 September 1986", in ESEE Research Report, issues 86–89, Civil Engineering Dept., Imperial College of Science and Technology,page 11:

     A seismogramme of the earthquake recorded in Zurich is shown in figure 3.7 . . .

   • 2005, Božo Biškupić and Tonko Maroević, Contemporary Croatian Drawing, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia:

     . . . it acts to the greatest possible extent as a seismogramme of sensibility and experience.