SEISMOLOGY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of geology that studies earthquakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("seismology" is a kind of...):

geophysical science; geophysics (geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth)

Derivation:

seismologic; seismological (of or concerned with seismology)

seismologist (a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth)

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