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A measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
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spirograph
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spirograph \Spi"ro*graph\, n. [L. spirare to breathe + -graph.] (Physiol.) An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.
Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids . It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965. The name has been a registered ...
Usage examples of spirograph.
A plate of spaghetti, the spirograph pattern on a lampshade, the crazy paving in the back garden.
If the Etch A Sketch and the Spirograph had really worked they would probably be machines, not toys, they would be part of the way the adult universe operated, and be mounted onto the instrument panels of cars or worn on the belts of policemen.
It was a science more closely related to the Spirograph and the Etch A Sketch than to the spaldeen and Dylan fell on it with gratitude.
Dylan for years had clung to this one face, bent over the slates as though they were sheets of Spirograph paper on the floor of his room, not noticing until too late that they were part of an edifice which curled past Bond and Nevins Street, into the unknown.
Etch A Sketch and the Spirograph, and something in his conjured solitude had followed him out onto the street, then reversed itself to drape all over him anywhere he sat still.
Philadelphia Flyers sticker the binder was laced with ballpoint scrawlings, lines dug in repetition like Spirograph ovals, gestures toward some perfect, elusive form.
With its bedsheet stripes and wobbly Spirograph emblem it had been too personal, too tender for the street, Dylan understood that now.
The thing had been called a Spirograph, and it had produced geometric patterns almost as complicated as this one.
Sonja removed the note and read it, deciphering the spidery script that seemed both calligraphy and a spirograph drawing - the secret language of the Pretenders.
It was a season of presents by the chimney too, but even when he was nine Will would gladly have swapped his Spirographs and his Batmobiles for a little peace and goodwill.
A plate of spaghetti, the spirograph pattern on a lampshade, the crazy paving in the back garden.