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MERCALLI SCALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("Mercalli scale" is a kind of...):
graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
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