Register
a device for automatically indicating the number of revolutions made or amount of work done by machinery; or recording steam, air, or water pressure, or other data, by means of apparatus deriving motion from the object or objects whose force, distance, velocity, direction, elevation, or numerical amount it is desired to ascertain. There are various special appliances of this kind, each particularly adapted for the peculiar operation which is to be investigated; many depending on the action of clock-work mechanism, others, as in registering meteorological instruments, ments, having having means for recording varying conditions, as with the the anemometer, barograph, etc. In music, the compass of a voice or instrument, or a portion of the compass of a voice; as, the upper, middle, or lower register. Also, an organ stop, or the knob or handle by means of which the performer commands any given stop. In printing, the agreement of two printed forms to be applied to the same sheet, either on the same or the respective sides thereof. The former is used in chromatic printing, where a number of colors are laid on consecutively.