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metrograph

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Etymology

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Frommetro- +‎-graph.

Noun

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metrograph (pluralmetrographs)

  1. Aninstrument attached to alocomotive forrecording itsspeed and the number andduration of itsstops.
    • 1880 December 3, “Watham Watch Gauge”, inEnglish Mechanic and Mirror of Science, volume32, page304:
      Metrographs have been devised for counting the revolutions and speed of locomotive wheels.
    • 1961, American Association of Railroad Superintendents,Proceedings and Committee Reports of Annual Meeting, page85:
      Now, equipment is available today where you can use teletype, punch cards, use ametrograph machine, or a thousand ways.
  2. A device used to measure theflow andvelocity of liquids.
    • 1929,Contract Record, page803:
      Represented by R.W. Sparling, and C. F. Sherwood, exhibited the Sparling line of main line meters andmetrograph recording instruments.
  3. Any of variousdevices thatcontinuouslyrecord severalmeteorological phenomena; aradiosonde or one of itsprecursors.
    • 1895 October 12, “How the Weather Bureau Forecasts Storms”, inDigest: Review of Reviews Incorporating The Literary Digest, volume11, number24, page703:
      The automatic records of the sunshine recorder, the anemometer and the wind vane, are registered on one instrument, which is called ametrograph or improved triple register.
    • 1982, M. A. Hewitt,Downtown People Mover (DPM) Winterization Test Demonstration, pages2-21:
      Themetrograph temperature sensor and the two mercury thermometers were backed up by temperature readings from nickel iron resistance thermometers and reported temperature readings from Buckley Air National Guard Base Weather Station.
    • 1992, Preston B. Nichols, Peter Moon,The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, page44:
      The government's contribution to the radiosonde dates back to the "airbornemetrograph" of the 1920's. This was a mechanical device that recorded temperature, humidity, and pressure.
    • 2023, Ashwin Vinoo,Project Mankind, page381:
      Since the 1930s, the government would use radiometrographs to monitor the weather.
  4. A device that usesreflectionholograms to accuratelymeasure three-dimensional objects, used primarily inorthodontics.
    • 1986,Proceedings of the 17th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, page270:
      With themetrograph, the hologram is fixed and the point of light can be moved in the three orthogonal directions.
    • 1989,South African Journal of Science - Volume 85, Issues 7-12, page480:
      [] is shown for the first time that with reflection holograms of orthodontic dental casts, measurements can be made of the quantities required for treatment assessment, to within +-0.2 mm, using a reflexmetrograph.
    • 2002, William C. Shaw, Gunvor Semb, “Evidence-based care for children with cleft lip and palate”, in Diego F. Wyszynski, editor,Cleft Lip and Palate: From Origin to Treatment, page435:
      To relate the subjective assessment of the Goslon Yardstick to objective measurement, overjet, overbite, incisor angulation, and various arch form and crossbite relationships were masured on the same series of study casts using a reflexmetrograph.

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