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Benioff (iou)



Benioff noun. M20.
[V. Hugo Benioff (1899-1968), US seismologist.]
Geology.
Benioff seismograph, Benioff seismometer, an instrument of a kind invented by Benioff in which movement of a horizontal rod induces an electrical voltage. M20.
Benioff zone, an inclined zone of high seismicity underlying island-arc systems at the overlap of oceanic and continental crust. M20.