self-registering

American  

[self-rej-uh-ster-ing, -string, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈrɛdʒ ə stər ɪŋ, -strɪŋ, ˌsɛlf- /

adjective

1. registering automatically, as an instrument; self-recording.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-registration
  noun

Etymology

Origin of self-registering

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Rooms were open for a kind of self-registering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long experience had demonstrated to the meteorologists of the 1840's that the principal obstacle to the success of self-registering instruments was friction.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Multhauf, Robert P.

A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

My self-registering thermometer, which hung outside my window with a southeast exposure, marked nineteen degrees below zero, centigrade.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

This latter word appears to be applicable to all kinds of self-registering barometers hitherto designed.

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