tsunameter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of equipment used to detect tsunamis, deployed across the open ocean to form a network for the purpose of early warning.
    — 2004 December 28, Tom Paulson, "Tsunami warning system being developed in Seattle could avert disasters", Seattle Post-Intelligencer The tsunameter pioneered at the Seattle lab is actually a system — a sophisticated pressure gauge set on the ocean floor that sends signals to a surface buoy.

词形变化

tsunameters plural

词源

Etymology tree
English tsunami
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English tsunameter
From tsunami + -meter.
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