RICHTER SCALE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("Richter scale" is a kind of...):

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

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