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SEISMOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of geology that studies earthquakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("seismology" is a kind of...):
geophysical science; geophysics (geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth)
Derivation:
seismologic; seismological (of or concerned with seismology)
seismologist (a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth)
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