recorder

noun

re·cord·er | \ ri-ˈkȯr-dər

Definition of recorder

1a : the chief judicial magistrate of some British cities and boroughs

b : a municipal judge with criminal jurisdiction of first instance and sometimes limited civil jurisdiction

2 : one that records

3 : any of a group of wind instruments ranging from soprano to bass that are characterized by a conical tube, a whistle mouthpiece, and eight finger holes

Examples of recorder in a Sentence

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The black box data recorder devices from Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 are now being sent to investigators in Europe, who will probe what ultimately caused the disaster. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Pilot of Doomed Ethiopian Airlines Flight Reported Control Problems Shortly After Takeoff," 13 Mar. 2019 Indonesian authorities have recovered, and more recently downloaded data from, Lion Air Flight 610’s cockpit-voice recorder. — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, "Boeing and Regulators Delay Jetliner Fixes Prompted by Lion Air Crash," 10 Feb. 2019 The flight-recorder data is presented as a series of line graphs that give a clear picture of what was going on with the aircraft systems as the plane taxied on the ground, took off and flew for just 11 minutes. — Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, "Lion Air pilots struggled against Boeing’s 737 MAX flight-control system, black-box data shows," 27 Nov. 2018 Ecology undergraduate researcher Karen Wang drops her fine-mesh bee net, whips out a small recorder and leans in to observe Yellow 54 climbing into the bluebell’s long tubular blooms. — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, "How Cheaters Prosper," 28 Sep. 2018 Divers already have recovered a digital recorder from the boat. — Fox News, "Sunken duck boat to be raised after deadly Missouri accident," 23 July 2018 The late Mayor Ed Lee appointed Tang to the board in 2013 when Supervisor Carmen Chu became assessor-recorder. — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, "Nine candidates file to run for District Four supervisor in SF," 18 June 2018 The victim’s mother then bought a recorder to obtain proof of Cosby admitting to his crimes. — Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter, "Bill Cosby Accuser Revists Choice to Speak Out: "I Didn't Think Anybody Would Believe Me"," 1 June 2018 The Survey USA poll also asked voters about the lower-profile race for county assessor-recorder-clerk, which pits two-term incumbent Ernest Dronenburg Jr. against Matthew Strabone, an attorney. — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Incumbents lead in county races, but many voters undecided, new poll shows," 14 May 2018

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