self-recording

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ recording.

Adjective

self-recording (not comparable)

1. Of an instrument: capable of automatically recording its measurements.
   • 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

     Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.