From <span class="searchmatch">self</span>- + <span class="searchmatch">recording</span>. <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-<span class="searchmatch">recording</span> (not comparable) Of an instrument: capable of automatically <span class="searchmatch">recording</span> its measurements. 1950 March, H. A. Vallance...
stadiometer (plural stadiometers) A device, having a vertical scale and a movable headboard, for measuring a person's height A <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-<span class="searchmatch">recording</span> theodolite....
strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-<span class="searchmatch">recording</span> wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower....
autochronographs) (rare, archaic) An instrument for the instantaneous <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-<span class="searchmatch">recording</span> or printing of time. Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Autochronograph”...
From <span class="searchmatch">self</span>- + registering. <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-registering (not comparable) Of an instrument or machine: <span class="searchmatch">recording</span> its own operations. 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed...
portapack From the brand name Portapak, from portable pack. portapak (plural portapaks) A portable, battery-powered, <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-contained video <span class="searchmatch">recording</span> system....
Syllabification: ak‧ce‧le‧ro‧graf akcelerograf m inan accelerometer (<span class="searchmatch">self</span>-<span class="searchmatch">recording</span> device used to measure acceleration) Declension of akcelerograf adjectives...
2005, Richard Carlin, Country, page 221: Wynette even dipped to <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-parody, <span class="searchmatch">recording</span> with the English-based technorock group KLF, scoring a British hit...
videomaking prefigures the relentless narcissism of our current <span class="searchmatch">self</span>-publishing mania, but there’s artfulness to his seemingly unmediated <span class="searchmatch">recording</span>....
pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings, <span class="searchmatch">recording</span> all movements of trains […] 2012, R. Flodna Knob, The Monster Between...