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SEISMOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth
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Hypernyms ("seismologist" is a kind of...):
geophysicist (a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth)
Derivation:
seismology (the branch of geology that studies earthquakes)