"self-recording" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "self- + recording",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Of an instrument: capable of automatically recording its measurements."
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          "automatic",
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          "record",
          "record"
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          "measurement",
          "measurement"
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  "word": "self-recording"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        }
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          "record"
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          "measurement",
          "measurement"
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