self-recording en · ADJ
Etymology
From self- + recording.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of an instrument: capable of automatically recording its measurements.
Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.
1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149: