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

• self-registration
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of self-registering

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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self-registering

Rooms were open for a kind of self-registering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like those self-registering machines that keep a strict 295 account of their own workings, it seemed to be engaged, as it went on, in writing, stage after stage, its own history.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson

You can see the curve yourself if you ask Fraser to show you the self-registering barograph.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood

At that time, certainly no other maker had made more than a small fraction of this number of self-registering instruments.

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

It contained a barometer, a maximum and minimum self-registering thermometer, wet and dry bulb, also a black bulb thermometer, a one-eighth-inch rain-gauge, and several other instruments.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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