Definition of Magnetograph

1. Noun. A scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field).

Generic synonyms: Scientific Instrument

Definition of Magnetograph

1. n. An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

Definition of Magnetograph

1. Noun. A instrument for measuring changes in the direction and intensity of magnetic fields ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Magnetograph

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Magnetograph

1. An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements. Origin: Magneto- + -graph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetograph

magnetoencephalogram
magnetoencephalographic
magnetoencephalographies
magnetoencephalography
magnetoexciton
magnetoexcitons
magnetoferroelectric
magnetoferroelectricity
magnetoferroelectrics
magnetofluid
magnetofrictional
magnetogenesis
magnetogram
magnetograms
magnetogranulation
magnetograph (current term)
magnetographic
magnetographs
magnetogravitational
magnetogravitic
magnetogyric
magnetogyric ratio
magnetohydrodynamic
magnetohydrodynamical
magnetohydrodynamically
magnetohydrodynamics
magnetohydrostatic
magnetoid
magnetoids
magnetoimpedance

Literary usage of Magnetograph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"The following table shows the time of the magnetograph records and the time ... Times of magnetograph Records. 1 The Toronto record was communicated by Mr. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"If the theory offered be sustained by a more complete examination of the facts, it will show that the magnetograph may be used as a ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"Should, however, the torsion of the suspension thread of the declination magnetograph have become changed to any extent, our corrected monthly ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"The magnetograph at the observatory, Cheltenham, Maryland, sixteen miles ... So there have been a number of earthquakes recorded by the magnetograph at ..."

5. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1917)
"He also found that some earthquakes were recorded by the magnetograph and not by the seismograph, and vice versa, and that sometimes one variometer of a ..."

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