"tsunameter" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tsunameters [plural]
Etymology: tsunami + -meter Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|tsunami|meter}} tsunami + -meter Head templates: {{en-noun}} tsunameter (plural tsunameters)
  1. A piece of equipment used to detect tsunamis, deployed across the open ocean to form a network for the purpose of early warning. Derived forms: tsunameter buoy Translations (piece of equipment used to detect tsunamis): 津波計 (tsunamikei) (Japanese), цунаметр (cunametr) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-tsunameter-en-noun-uo~tHrXg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -meter

Inflected forms

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          "text": "2004 December 28, Tom Paulson, \"Tsunami warning system being developed in Seattle could avert disasters\", Seattle Post-Intelligencer\nThe tsunameter pioneered at the Seattle lab is actually a system — a sophisticated pressure gauge set on the ocean floor that sends signals to a surface buoy."
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