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Definition of Self-registering thermometer
1. Noun. A thermometer that records the temperature automatically.
Medical Definition of Self-registering thermometer
1. A thermometer in which the maximum or minimum temperature, during the period of observation, is registered by means of a special appliance; in the clinical thermometer only the highest temperature is registered, usually by a steel bar above the column of mercury or by a segment of the mercury separated from the main column by a bubble of air; after the maximum temperature is registered, the bar or segment of mercury remains in place as the column of mercury contracts. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-registering Thermometer
Literary usage of Self-registering thermometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"On a Mechanical self-registering thermometer. By A. MALLOCK. Having recently had
occasion to keep a room at a constant temperature for many days together, ..."
2. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1828)
"This figure represents a Self-Registering Thermometer. In order to prepare the
instrument for use, it must be held in such a situation, as that the enamel ..."
3. (1833)
"... ii ascertained by an horizontal self-registering Thermometer in a similar ...
selfregistering Thermometer ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"On an Improvement in Sikes' Self-Registering Thermometer. ... The want of a
self-registering thermometer, easily kept in working order, is still felt among ..."
5. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1816)
"Description of a New Self-Registering Thermometer. Contrived by EDWARD CLARK,
... SelfRegistering Thermometer ..."
6. Elements of Meteorology: With Questions for Examination, Designed for by John Brocklesby (1855)
"self-registering thermometer. 43. The object for which this instrument is
constructed, i* to obtain, in the absence of the observer, the highest and lowest ..."
7. Elements of Meteorology: With Questions for Examination, Designed for by John Brocklesby (1851)
"self-registering thermometer. 43. The object for which this instrument is
constructed, is to obtain, in the absence of the observer, the highest and ..."
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