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Art of recording or measuring intervals of time by the photochronograph. -- Pho`to*chron`o*graph"ic (#), -graph"ic*al (#), a. -- -graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. Blackstone.

To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.] Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read. Fuller.

r records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.

Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.

The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. Prior.

fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

. -- Speed gauge, Speed indicator, and Speed recorder (Mach.), devices for indicating or recording the rate of a body's motion, as the number of revolutions of a shaft in a given time. -- Speed lathe (Mach.), a power lathe with a rapidly revolving spindle, for turning small objects, for polishing, etc.; a hand lathe.…

An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.

le-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record. 4. (Computers)

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument. -- Tel`e*seis"mic (#), a.

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.