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An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

An instrument for recording the larynx movements in speech.

tion, especially on shipboard. -- Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. -- Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. -- Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belon…

A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water…

An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

, a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.

An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the number of steps taken by a walker.

An instrument for autographically recording the wave forms of varying currents, esp. rapidly varying alternating currents.

An apparatus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. -- Os`cil*lo*graph"ic (#), a.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. Dryden. Parish clerk. (a) The clerk or recording officer of a parish. (b) A layman who leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of the Church of England. -- Parish court, in Louisiana, a court in each parish.

(Astron.) An instrument for the photographic recording of star transits.