self-registering
Americanadjective
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Origin of self-registering
First recorded in 1830–40
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Rooms were open for a kind of self-registering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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