Geophone

Word GEOPHONE
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What do we mean by geophone?

An electronic receiver designed to pick up seismic vibrations. noun

A form of microphone that detects and records seismic vibrations noun

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The word "geophone" in example sentences

You know, yesterday there was some excitement when crews put down what is called a geophone, Tony. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their "geophone" essentially serves that purpose, though I had to wonder why it took them so long to think about it.

Some of these feature the rarely used geophone, a percussion instrument—invented by Olivier Messiaen for his "From the Canyons to the Stars"—that consists of an oil drum filled with dirt pellets. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)

We recorded rumbles using microphones to measure how far and how fast the elephant vocalizations traveled in the air, and then a similar recording device, a geophone, to measure vibrations in the ground. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

Excited by this goal, we decided to run a geophone off the tower at a 50-yard distance and collect data from footfalls for the rest of the field season. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

I knew that seismologists used a geophone to measure earthquakes, which worked pretty much like a condenser microphone with a magnet and coil. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

We hoped to model how far the rumbles could travel, given the strength of the rumbles at the most distant geophone, and the fall-off rate between sensors. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

This simple action allowed us to measure the time it took for the wave produced by the sledgehammer to reach the geophone or to pass between geophones. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

We had painstakingly measured out each geophone from the head of the trough with the DGPS, providing the centimeter accuracy needed in our distance calculations. ❋ Caitlin O'Connell (2007)

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