What's the difference between seismic and seismograph?

Seismic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Seismal

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arriving at seismic monitoring sites that were already built was a bit odd, but they were incredible - far better than anything I could have built."
  • (2) These findings should prove useful in developing seismic safety codes.
  • (3) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
  • (4) The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity said “a seismic shift in people’s attitude” was needed.
  • (5) But Shell's exploration activity in the Beaufort Sea was halted when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that seismic testing would harm noise-sensitive bowhead whales and the indigenous communities that harvest them.
  • (6) On the road to 2015, all political parties will need to tackle this conundrum if there is going to be a seismic shift away from traditional thinking about how health and social care are delivered.
  • (7) It had to be done as a matter of principle and not in a manner that damaged the eventual nominee.” Sanders may not be able to achieve the seismic changes Jackson did – Democratic leaders would likely look with extreme disfavor on someone who until last year was not a member of the party demanding changes to proportionality or to the superdelegate system, for example.
  • (8) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
  • (9) I look forward to the campaign starting so people can really start digging into the various contrasting options.” Canada's political landscape undergoes seismic shift with election in Alberta Read more But even that job will prove problematic for the Liberals, who are already struggling to differentiate their platform from that of the rising New Democrats, a formerly leftwing party successfully moved to the centre under Mulcair and the late Jack Layton.
  • (10) The softly spoken Dunlop, a graduate of Glasgow University who moved south and is now a Conservative councillor in Horsham, West Sussex, was a special adviser in Downing Street under Margaret Thatcher during the seismic event which defined Scottish politics in the final decade of the last century – the introduction of the poll tax.
  • (11) The Earth rang to the blast, with vibrations picked up by seismic sensors 4,000km away.
  • (12) Compass said in a statement: "Something seismic could be happening in British politics which reflects the Compass view of a more pluralistic and tolerant progressive democracy.
  • (13) In the 12 months leading up to June’s election, however, two seismic events shocked them into action.
  • (14) Dr Mark Porter, the head of the British Medical Association (BMA), said that whoever took office after the general election would inevitably be tempted to bring in charges and may not be deterred by the unpopularity of such a seismic change to the health service.
  • (15) Although earthquakes are mainly concentrated in zones close to boundaries of tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere, infrequent events away from the main seismic regions can cause major disasters.
  • (16) One idea would be to give the suburbs more public buildings – structures that, in Italy's fragile terrain, are seismically safe as well as green and civic-spirited.
  • (17) Given the current seismic wave of malpractice and liability litigation, hospitals must implement programs to effectively manage loss caused by injury within their institutions.
  • (18) The fact that this is such a big deal in 2014 shows just how pitifully slowly television has reacted to the seismic changes in wider society."
  • (19) After a year of seismic shocks comes the protest and fightback.
  • (20) During ontogenesis in mammals, a stage of programming by neurogenesis (seismic sleep) precedes the appearance of SP so long as the programming system isn't functional.

Seismograph


Definition:

  • (n.) An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In spite of this, the scope of its uses continues to increase and it remains an indispensable instrument of neurophysiological diagnosis, especially in its capacity as a 'seismograph' of the brain.
  • (2) Looking at the bizarre, sinister world of North Korea’s leadership, it is almost anyone’s guess why the world’s most reclusive regime decided to mark the new year by exploding a device it claimed was a hydrogen bomb , sending seismographs quivering and unleashing new tensions in international relations.
  • (3) These quakes were substantial – measuring magnitude five – but had been invisible because they did not show up on seismographs.
  • (4) That morning the USGS servers received data from various seismographs, translated them into figures and sent them over the net to the journalist’s personal computer.
  • (5) The first explosion was registered on the seismograph at the University of Mexico at 05 h 44 min 52 s and was followed by a dozen explosions within the next hour, some of them of BLEVE type (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion) due to rupture of one or more storage tanks.
  • (6) Political volcanologists watching for eruptions should be turning their seismographs on the NHS.