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Seismic   /sˈaɪzmɪk/   Listen
Seismic

adjective
1.
Subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration.  Synonym: seismal.



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"Seismic" Quotes from Famous Books



... their examination, the less reason there is to object to this description. Dr. Klein of Cologne believes that rills of this class are due to the shrinkage of parts of the moon's crust, and that they are not as a rule the result of volcanic causes, though he admits that there may be some which have a seismic origin. No good reason has as yet been given for the fact that they so frequently cross small craters and other objects in their course, though it has been suggested that the route followed by a rill from crater to crater in these instances may be a line of least ...
— The Moon - A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features • Thomas Gwyn Elger

... scientific instruments. He was amply supplied with powerful field glasses, a wonderful telescope, partly of his own invention; instruments for the measuring of mountains heights, the recording of seismic disturbances, and many other scientific paraphernalia of which Jack and Mark did not know ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood

... earthshock, earth tremor. Associated Words: seismology, seismic, seismography, seismometry, seismal, seismometer, seismograph, seismogram, seismoscope, microseism, microseismic, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... English policy for the last hundred years. No crime that the Ottoman Government could commit, no act of barbarism, would ever persuade us to do away with the anachronism of Turkey's existence in Europe; but at last the seismic convulsion of the war has knocked this policy into a heap of disjected ruins, and it can never be rebuilt again on the old lines. For among our other avowed objects in prosecuting the war to its ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson



Words linked to "Seismic" :   unstable, seismic disturbance, seism, seismal



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