English Explanatory Dictionary

metrograph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
  2. A device used to measure the flow and velocity of liquids.
  3. Any of various devices that continuously record several meteorological phenomena; a radiosonde or one of its precursors.
  4. A device that uses reflection holograms to accurately measure three-dimensional objects, used primarily in orthodontics.

Word forms

metrograph metrographs

Etymology

From metro- + -graph.

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