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seismic

/sahyz-mik, sahys-/US // ˈsaɪz mɪk, ˈsaɪs- //UK // (ˈsaɪzmɪk) //

地震,抗震,地震性,地震学

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to, of the nature of, or caused by an earthquake or vibration of the earth, whether due to natural or artificial causes.

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Examples

  • Previous studies have noted that CO2 tends to escape Earth in seismic hot spots.

  • I wonder if we could see some kind of seismic result on Sunday because of that.

  • As a result, researchers haven’t ever mapped the global scope of human seismic noise, Lecocq says.

  • Of 268 seismic stations around the world, 185, or 69 percent, showed significant reductions in human-caused noise.

  • Combining this wealth of seismic data with machine learning is “the future of earthquake analysis.”

  • He also warns that the entire Uffizi museum should be fortified with anti-seismic measures.

  • Similar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.

  • The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity.

  • To an audience destabilized by seismic changes in the culture, he brings the assurance (and the threat) that Obama et al.

  • If you were following this saga, online, it felt like a seismic rumble.

  • Nothing short of a seismic cataclysm—an earthquake, in fact—could deter a San Francisco audience after that.

  • A great earthquake rarely, if ever, occurs without some preparation in the form of a marked increase of seismic activity.

  • The portion of the earth's surface which is vertically above the seismic focus is called the epicentre.

  • One clue to the solution of the problem is afforded by the seismic death-rate of the damaged towns.

  • Even the world itself lay under it, vaguely uneasy, sometimes startled to momentary seismic panic.