Dictionary

fluviograph en · NOUN

Etymology

From fluvio- + graph.

Meanings

1. (dated) An instrument for measuring and automatically recording the rise and fall of a river.
   • By fluviograph and rating table the volume was 19,636 cubic feet, the difference .being explained by the fact that the river was falling rapidly. 1903, Factory and Industrial Management, volume 24, page 345:
   • We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we are indebted to La Nature, two new registering devices, one termed the marograph, designed for tide measurements, the other the fluviograph, intended for similar examination of river and canal levels. 1875 October 9, Scientific American, page 227:
   • More records, however, are at hand for Gamboa than for Bohio, and the lowest reading at the Gamboa fluviograph occurred in the spring of 1901, when for a period of about two and one-half months the fluviograph at Gamboa indicated a stage of less than 14 meters almost continuously. 1904, John Grimes Walker, Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899-1901:

Forms