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- noun Plural form of
geophone .
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Examples
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Hopefully after that they can begin the work of putting what they call geophones, Daryn.
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Seismic waves reflect and refract off subsurface rock formations and travel back to acoustic receivers called geophones (on land) or hydrophones (in water).
Seismic exploration 2008
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What they say is that these so-called geophones, these listening devices that they place on the surface of the mountain, sometimes a mile apart, picked up sounds, possibly, from inside the mountain, sounds that they say were in a pattern, about five minutes 'worth of sounds in intervals of about a second-and-a-half.
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They caution the noise picked up by devices on the surface called geophones could have been anything -- an animal, thunder, a shift in the rock.
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Through devices called geophones, they picked up sounds from the mountain somewhere.
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What they did was they place these six cylindrical devices called geophones on the top of the mountain behind me there.
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Yesterday, we learned that they did pick up sounds or vibrations of sounds from so-called geophones that were placed on the surface of this mountain.
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They caution the noise picked up by devices on the ground called geophones could have been anything -- an animal, thunder, a shift in the rock.
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They monitored these listening devices called geophones that they had placed on the surface of the mountain.
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Like any of the seismograph techniques, you set sensitive listening devices, called geophones, in the surface of the ground, and they record the echoes of loud noises, made on or near the surface, as they bounce off the different geological structures below.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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The station we built beside the glacier holds three sensors called geophones, which measure the movement of the rock bed along different axes (north/ south, east/ west, up/ down).
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future Jer Thorp 2023
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