Meaning of crescograph | Babel Free

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A device for measuring growth in plants.

Examples

“For the detection of variation of growth it was necessary to devise the extremely sensitive balanced crescograph.”

“The magnetic crescograph, invented by the famed Indian botanist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, for this purpose, seems capable of magnifying the highest powers of the microscope a hundred thousand times.”

“His various "crescographs," or growth recorders, have steadily increased in sensitiveness, until in the latest, the magnetic crescograph, we have an instrument which magnifies the movement ten million times.”

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