self-registering

adjective

Of an instrument or machine: recording its own operations.

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Meanings

adjectiveself-registering (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf an instrument or machine: recording its own operations.
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    Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

    1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303

Origin

From self- + registering.

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APA

self-registering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-registering

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Chicago

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