Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A device that records oscillations, as of an electric current and voltage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for recording alternating-current wave-forms and for the study of electrical oscillations.
  • noun An apparatus for recording graphically the motions of oscillation of any structure or element as to frequency and magnitude. The element may carry a pen or tracing-point, while a paper, borne on a fixed support, is moved before the tracer as the latter oscillates; or the principle may be reversed: used to record the effect of trains on bridges, or of moving machinery in buildings, or the effect of earth-movements on structures.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) An apparatus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, especially of voltages or currents; it usually consists of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high.
  • noun a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating .

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument for measuring alternating or varying electric current in terms of current and voltage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[oscill(ation) + –graph.]

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Examples

  • Cambridge who devised the convenient moving-iron oscillograph which is now in common use; to all these my own work is deeply indebted.

    Edgar Adrian - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Bell had just bought a new automatic oscillograph reader that spring whose purpose was to transfer that data to punch cards so it could be plotted by another machine.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • His job was to handle two life-sized dummies equipped with instrumentation including an oscillograph.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Bell had just bought a new automatic oscillograph reader that spring whose purpose was to transfer that data to punch cards so it could be plotted by another machine.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Back then, the gauges were hooked up to an oscillograph, a machine that recorded data in squiggly lines on a moving roll of graph paper, something like an electrocardiograph did before the digital age.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Back in the lab, we fished up from the hole the muscle's pointy end and tied it to an oscillograph whose pen-arm moved at first in even sweeps.

    Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Sammy Perlmutter 2010

  • Turner grabbed for an aluminum-encased oscillograph.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • His job was to handle two life-sized dummies equipped with instrumentation including an oscillograph.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Back in the lab, we fished up from the hole the muscle's pointy end and tied it to an oscillograph whose pen-arm moved at first in even sweeps.

    Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Sammy Perlmutter 2010

  • Back then, the gauges were hooked up to an oscillograph, a machine that recorded data in squiggly lines on a moving roll of graph paper, something like an electrocardiograph did before the digital age.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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