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accelerograph

The English word “accelerograph” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
  2. An instrument used to record the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake.

Etymology

From accelero- + -graph.

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