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self-recording

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[self-ri-kawr-ding, self-] / ˈsɛlf rɪˈkɔr dɪŋ, ˌsɛlf- /

adjective

  1. recording automatically, as an instrument.


Etymology

Origin of self-recording

First recorded in 1870–75


Example Sentences

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After self-recording a prolific run of early albums, Alex was reluctant to invite anyone new into his process, but Portrait, who arrived to work on the 2015 album “Beach Music,” slowly became a trusted partner.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

A lot of it certainly had to do with the pandemic, but I also had just finished a film that was really centered around a woman who had been self-recording for 21 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

Variety's Owen Gleiberman wrote: "He was onto the whole obsession with self-recording ahead of everyone else; he kept a video camera running at home, on movie sets, wherever he was."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2021

I don't know what I sound like anymore because, still, I shiver to think of repeating my self-recording experiment of seventh grade.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021

Self-Registering Rain-Gauge.—The rain-gauge can be combined with clock-work and other mechanism so as to be self-recording of the amount of rain, the time, and duration of its fall.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Henry Negretti

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