meteorographn.
/ˈmiːtɪərəˌɡrɑːf/, /ˈmiːtɪərəˌɡraf/, U.S. /ˌmidiˈɔrəɡræf/, /ˈmidiərəˌɡræf/ Meteorology. Now chiefly historical.
An apparatus for automatically recording several different meteorological phenomena at the same time.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > recording several kinds of information
meteorograph1780
telemeteorograph1879
1780 Monthly Rev. 63 499 A piece of mechanism, which he [sc. Magellan] calls a perpetual meteorograph.
1879 Smithsonian Rep. (1880) 519 A universal meteorograph, designed for detached observatories.
1900 Standard 21 July 3/1 A Richard meteorograph..by which traces of the barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity are continuously and automatically recorded on rotating papered cylinders.
1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics III. 6/2 The balloon meteorograph..gives a graph scratched by a sharp metal point on a silver-plated surface.
1945 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 14 129/2 A Marvin Kite Meteorograph..was used to obtain a continuous record of the temperature, pressure, humidity and number of feet of air passing the instrument at a height of 216 ft. The instrument was slung from a spar.
1970 Science 9 Jan. 166/2 His scholarly chronicle..takes up in order the development of instruments for measuring atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, rain, evaporation, [etc.], and combinations of these instruments in the form of meteorographs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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