oscillographn.
/əˈsɪləɡrɑːf/, /ɒˈsɪləɡrɑːf/, /əˈsɪləɡraf/, /ɒˈsɪləɡraf/, U.S. /əˈsɪləˌɡræf/ 1. An instrument for detecting and measuring the motion of a ship or the sea surface due to waves. disused.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > other nautical instruments
clinometer1864
rhysimeter1871
oscillograph1874
topophone1880
oscillometer1899
astrograph1941
1874 E. Bertin Notes on Waves & Rolling 118 We may..hope for favourable results from the employment of the oscillograph with two pendulums which Mr. Froude has invented; the French Admiralty has caused a similar instrument to be constructed.
1896 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 37 322 The graphic tracing of the movements of the sea with the help of the ‘oscillograph’ was undertaken.
1904 C. H. Peabody Naval Archit. 344 Investigations of the rolling of ships in quiet water and among waves have been made..by aid of instruments known as oscillographs which have slow and quick pendulums, and registering devices.
2. Electronics.
a. A device for recording oscillations, esp. those of an electric current. Also: a cathode-ray oscilloscope.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > alternating current > [noun] > instrument displaying change
oscillograph1893
oscilloscope1909
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > [noun] > variation in voltage > instrument displaying
oscillograph1893
1893 A. Blondel in Electrician 17 Mar. 571/1 The object of this communication is to describe some new galvanometric apparatus or oscillographs allowing one to determine by direct observation..the periodic curves of alternating currents.
1910 G. W. Pierce Princ. Wireless Telegr. xviii. 181 The necessary sensitiveness..was finally obtained with a Braun's cathode tube oscillograph.
1925 Literary Digest 11 July 25/1 The stethoscope makes the heart-beat audible, and the oscillograph gives graphic presentation of its action.
1932 News Chron. 23 Sept. 10/6 In one of the wooden huts at Slough I watched lightning flashes from thousands of miles away being recorded on the glass face of an oscillograph some 9in. in diameter.
1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby ix. 93 The single hooded eye of an oscillograph peered from the shadows.
1974 Sci. Amer. Mar. 94/3 In the electromechanical oscillograph..a tiny mirror is attached to the moving coil of a galvanometer, which oscillates in sympathy with the applied voltage.
1989 Jrnl. Psychophysiol. 3 76/2 Physiological measures were recorded on a 4-channel Nec San Ei oscillograph.
b. A record produced by such a device; = oscillogram n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > [noun] > variation in voltage > instrument displaying > record produced by
oscillogram1903
oscillograph1936
1936 Discovery June 197/2 Some excellent oscillographs are shown..of damped and undamped waves.
1957 New Biol. 23 35 Plate 11..shows some oscillographs (records made with the oscilloscope) of the songs of two species of insects.
1975 Nature 5 June 514/3 The photographic and line illustrations are adequate, but the oscillographs and sonograms have reproduced poorly.
1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies vii. 172 I put on a cardigan whose pattern was like an oscillograph's, burnt red lines over brownish mustard over grayish white over blue with black in it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
oscillographv.
/əˈsɪləɡrɑːf/, /ɒˈsɪləɡrɑːf/, /əˈsɪləɡraf/, /ɒˈsɪləɡraf/, U.S. /əˈsɪləˌɡræf/ Electronics. rare.
transitive. To record or display by means of an oscillograph.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > alternating current > record with oscillograph [verb (transitive)]
oscillograph1910
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > increase or regulate [verb (transitive)] > use oscillograph
oscillograph1910
1910 G. W. Pierce Princ. Wireless Telegr. xviii. 182 The drum must be driven synchronously with the alternating current which is being oscillographed.
1926 Physical Rev. 28 554 The signal is detected, amplified, and oscillographed.
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