Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An accelerometer equipped to measure and record ground motion during an earthquake.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus designed for measuring the succession of pressures developed in a powder-chamber by the combustion of a charge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun military An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
  • noun geology An instrument used to record the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake.

Etymologies

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accelerate + -graph

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