Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Magnetograph \Mag*net"o*graph\, n. [Magneto- + -graph.]
(Physics)
An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or
otherwise, the states and variations of any of the
terrestrial magnetic elements.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
magnetograph
n 1: a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations
(especially variations of the earth's magnetic field)