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magnetograph|mægˈniːtəʊgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. magneto- + -graph.]
1. An instrument arranged to record automatically the movements of the magnetometer. Also attrib.
1847Ronalds in Phil. Trans. CXXXVII. 113 The applicability of this system of self-registration to a magnetograph was sufficiently obvious. 1883C. Carpmael in Erupt. Krakatoa (ed. Symons 1888) 474 The three magnetograph traces were unusually steady. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 460/2 The records from ordinary Kew pattern magnetographs not infrequently show a repetition of..small rhythmic movements.
2. = magnetogram. (In recent U.S. Dicts.)
3. (See quot.)
1896Current Hist. (Buffalo, N.Y.) VI. 467 Professor John S. McKay..has obtained interesting pictures, which he calls ‘magnetographs’; resembling X-ray prints in being silhouettes of objects excluded from light.
Hence magˌnetoˈgraphic a., of or belonging to the magnetograph.
1887Science (U.S.) 20 May 499/1 The earthquake was recorded automatically upon the magnetographic traces in the observatory. |