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seismograph an instrument that registers and records the features of earthquakes. A seismogram is the record from such an instrument seismograph [′sīz·mə‚graf] (engineering) An instrument that records vibrations in the earth, especially earthquakes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The 64,420-square-foot science center will be equipped with a seismographic and global-positioning system station for earthquake and weather study and a 48-seat planetarium. Hanging high above visitors' heads, the painting showed seismographic markings placed in the sky, forming an alien face--a frightening apparition that emerges from seemingly random visual information to menace or protect us, something bigger than us and beyond our control. Yet for the past half century mainstream American culture--particularly after the seismographic social eruptions of the sexual revolution--has been caught in the middle of an uneasy truce between a desire for the illusionary traditional, "safe" moral order of the past and the innate human instinct for increased personal and sexual freedom. |
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