Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Automatically recording its own functions or operations. Used of a machine or instrument.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making, as an instrument of physical observation, a record of its own state, either continuously or at definite intervals: as. a self-recording barometer, tide-gage, anemometer, etc.
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Examples
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It comes packed with all the functionality of disgo video and many new exciting additions including a flip-out display for easy self-recording.
Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008
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He had interior self-recording equipment, but he had to go out every three hours to observe outside conditions as well.
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Ordinary thermometers can not be relied on for such small differences and the exploration of this stratum by self-recording instruments is difficult.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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In a little chamber about a foot square half-way to the apex, and extending to the center of the pile, he placed a self-recording spirit thermometer, a small tin cylinder containing records of the expedition, and then sealed up the aperture with a closely fitting stone.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Society, came and became 'much impressed by the most ingenious and novel self-recording instruments.'
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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Some of them are all eyes; some, all hands; some are self-recording microscopes; others, self-registering balances.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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But while other self-recording creatures are permitted at least to seem to change the subject, apparently nobody cares what I think of the tariff, the conservation of our natural resources, or the conflicts which revolve about the name of Dreyfus.
The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924
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Sound by sending up balloons with self-recording instruments attached.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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So he used to help to send up balloons with self-recording instruments attached to them, and track the threads which led to them when detached.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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The self-recording tide-gauges we employed were the property of the New South Wales
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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