Crossword clues for barograph
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barograph \Bar"o*graph\ (b[.a]*r[=o]"k[-o]), n. [Gr. ba`ros weight + -graph.] (Meteor.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
Wiktionary
n. A type of barometer that continuously records air pressure on a sheet or rotating drum
WordNet
n. a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure
Wikipedia
A barograph is a barometer that records the barometric pressure over time.
Usage examples of "barograph".
In the kitchen were hung our two mercury barometers, four aneroids, barograph, thermograph, and one thermometer.
In the centre was a barograph whose function it was to trace an ink line on a revolving drum of graphpaper.
Tom, noting the barograph, and seeing that they were twenty-two hundred feet high, decided to keep at about that distance from the earth.
Tom in relief, as he noted the needle of the barograph swinging over, indicating an everincreasing height.
On the wall to my right were the instruments for measuring atmospheric pressure - a barograph and two mercury barometers.
Properly speaking, we ought to have been in the west wind belt as soon as we came out, and the drift of the clouds and movement of the barograph were examined at least twenty-four times a day, but it still remained calm.
Thanks to their barograph, however, they could judge their height above the sea.
He studied the barograph, where the needle was moving ominously downward, and considered the dissolving skies and the mist which rose like a wall beyond the terrace.
It was a cold, grey day with low cloud, but the wind had veered and although he had seen neither barometer nor barograph he guessed the depression was passing north.
The barographs worked irreproachably the whole time, but one of the thermographs refused absolutely to work in the open air, and unfortunately the spindle pivot of the other broke as early as April 17.
Overhead hung an ordinary tell-tale compass, and compactly placed on other parts of the wall were barometers, thermometers, barographs, and, in fact, practically every instrument that the most exacting of aeronauts or Space-explorers could have asked for.
The maximum rise of pressure recorded was registered at Halifax, the self-recording barographs showing that the pressure rose over six centimetres in less than five minutes.
Though the barographs themselves gave no indication whence this wave had come, the variation in its intensity at different meteorological observatories could be accounted for by the law of inverse squares on the supposition that the explosion which started the wave had occurred at fifty-five degrees north, seventy-five degrees west.
In the kitchen were hung our two mercury barometers, four aneroids, barograph, thermograph, and one thermometer.
Then he would go out to the instrument shelter and swing the psychrometer and tap the aneroid barograph with his fingernail.