ergograph

American  

[ur-guh-graf, -grahf] / ˈɜr gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

1. an instrument that records the amount of work done when a muscle contracts.

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ergograph British  

/ ˈɜːɡəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. an instrument that measures and records the amount of work a muscle does during contraction, its rate of fatigue, etc

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Other Word Forms

• ergographic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of ergograph

First recorded in 1890–95; ergo- ¹ + -graph

Example Sentences

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ergograph

The one scientific instrument it seemed possible to use was an ergograph, a complicated and expensive instrument kindly lent to us from the physiological laboratory of the University of Chicago.

From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams

The varying influence on work with the ergograph of different musical intervals and different keys has been carefully studied by Féré with many interesting results.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

Féré has shown that the slight stimulus to the skin furnished by placing a piece of metal on the arm or elsewhere suffices to increase the output of work with the ergograph.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

Then we shall hear at summer resorts and fairs, "Your ergograph on a postal card, three for a quarter."

From Civics and Health by William H. Allen

This has been clearly determined, for instance, by Féré, in the course of a long and elaborate series of experiments dealing with the various influences that modify work as measured by Mosso's ergograph.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis