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Definition of Geophone
1. Noun. (geology) A form of microphone that detects and records seismic vibrations ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Geophone
1. a device that detects vibrations in the earth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geophone
Literary usage of Geophone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War Work of the Bureau of Standards: April 1, 1921 by National Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Standards, United States (1921)
"... and is called th1 geophone (Fig. 33); the second type is electrical, and is
called a seis- ... geophone."
2. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 edited by Thomas D. O'Rourke (1993)
"SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DETERMINATION OF BOREHOLE HORIZONTAL-geophone ORIENTATION
The ... To assess the uncertainty in the borehole horizontal- geophone ..."
3. How America Went to War: An Account from Official Sources of the Nation's by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The first geophone used by the western powers in the war was invented by the ...
The geophone was placed upon the ground and the vibrations of the earth ..."
4. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"FIGURE 1 (a) A single-geophone hammer seismograph used in shallow surveying, (b)
The single geophone records the onset of signals as marks on facsimile ..."
5. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"The geophone, which has proved of incalculable value in mining warfare, ...
The American geophone, which is a highly sensitive, extremely simple, ..."
6. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"The geophone, which has proved of incalculable value in mining warfare, ...
The American geophone, which is a highly sensitive, extremely simple, ..."
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