Richter scale
noun
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Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- scale hypernym
Related & opposite
- geology domain topic
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| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | geology |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | scale |