sismographe
French, noun/sis.mɔ.ɡʁaf/
sismographe is a French masculine noun meaning “seismometer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil enregistreur qui marque l’heure, la durée et l’amplitude des mouvements d’un point de l’écorce…”.
What does sismographe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseismometer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil enregistreur qui marque l’heure, la durée et l’amplitude des mouvements d’un point de l’écorce terrestre pendant un tremblement de terre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sismographe
- sismographes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sismographe?
- /sis.mɔ.ɡʁaf/
- \sis.mɔ.ɡʁaf\
- [ɬ͡siɬ͡s.mɔ.ɡʁaf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sismographe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sismographe in French?
sismographe appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).