seismometer
noun
seismometer is a noun meaning “A device used by seismologists to detect and measure seismic waves and therefore locate earthquakes etc; a seismograph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-I-S-M-O-M-E-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seismometer is seismometers.
What does seismometer mean?
noun
- 1
A device used by seismologists to detect and measure seismic waves and therefore locate earthquakes etc; a seismograph.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce seismometer?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-seismometer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of seismometer
- seismometers plural
- seismometre
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seismometer?
Seismometer appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Seismometer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device used by seismologists to measure seismic waves:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sismographe |
| German | Seismometer |
| Portuguese | sismómetro, sismômetro |
| Spanish | sismómetro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does seismometer come from?
From seismo- + -meter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).