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

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

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 Multhauf, Robert P.

The first is one for predicting the height of the tides for future time, at any port for which data have been already obtained regarding tidal heights, by means of a self-registering tide-gauge.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

There are other observation-stations where the self-registering offices of human fames and reputations are kept, and where these are measured spontaneously.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

Even at sea level a sudden fall to “Fair” would cause a rain, much to the indignation of the person who thought that he had purchased a self-registering weather prophet.

From Reading the Weather by Longstreth, Thomas Morris