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self-recording

[ self-ri-kawr-ding, self- ]

adjective

  1. recording automatically, as an instrument.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-recording1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

Plu′viograph, a self-recording rain-gauge; Pluviom′eter, an instrument for measuring the amount of rain that falls.

Carried upon the bridge is a platform which bears a number of instruments, chief among which is a self-recording dynamometer.

They are often made, too, with self-recording appliances, whereby the course of the test is set down automatically upon a chart.

Thus the barometer is rendered self-recording, by night or day, for a week or more; hence the great value of the instrument.

A self-recording barometer (usually an aneroid) is called a barograph.

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