Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for registering the depth and rapidity of respiratory movements.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for drawing spirals.
- noun Same as
atmograph , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine an
instrument formeasuring andrecording thedepth andrapidity ofbreathing movements
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
Etymologies
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Examples
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Batsheba used Wizard's mathematical data for the crystal visualization and explains: "This 3D projection is notable for showing all 240 vertices, arranged in the concentric circles that appear in the common 2D "spirograph" rendering of this polytope."
Own the universe - and a piece of Second Life - in Real Life Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Batsheba used Wizard's mathematical data for the crystal visualization and explains: "This 3D projection is notable for showing all 240 vertices, arranged in the concentric circles that appear in the common 2D "spirograph" rendering of this polytope."
Archive 2009-07-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Or you might loop around crazily a few times, like a spirograph on meth.
Mark Morford: Why Are You Always Walking in Circles? Mark Morford 2010
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Then he lifted its head, wheeled it about by the ammonite, spirograph shells of its horns till its eyes, on stalks, looked back at its bones.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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If it were flattened, it would form the perfect spirograph, Wizard explained.
Own the universe - and a piece of Second Life - in Real Life Bettina Tizzy 2009
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He reminds me of a spirograph in which fully half the teeth are missing.
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If it were flattened, it would form the perfect spirograph, Wizard explained.
Archive 2009-04-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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*Haz urge tu play wif spirograph* OMCC mine brayne is mush tudai.
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If it were flattened, it would form the perfect spirograph, Wizard explained.
Wizard Gynoid: "I think it's important. I have an intuition about it" Bettina Tizzy 2009
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If it were flattened, it would form the perfect spirograph, Wizard explained.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
treeseed commented on the word spirograph
Spirograph is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc., for a geometric drawing toy.
The Spirograph produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
The Spirograph was invented by British engineer Denys Fisher who exhibited it in 1965 at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair. It was subsequently produced by his company. Distribution rights were acquired by Kenner, Inc., which introduced it to the United States' market in 1966.
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February 12, 2008
strev commented on the word spirograph
I had a spiro agnew graph — wasn't fun at all
November 7, 2009