noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person who is skilled at, professes, or practices seismology.
2. 2
   a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth wordnet

Etymology

From seismology + -ist.

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