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{{Wiktionary|record|récord|recordable}}
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A '''record''', '''recording''' or '''records''' may refer to:
'''Record''' is (as a [[noun]]) any set of [[data]] kept, and (as a [[verb]]) to set down data to be kept. Such data may be [[writing]], [[audio]], [[digital]], or other media.
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==An item or collection of data==
For the [[sound recording]] type of '''record''' that spins on a [[turntable]], known as a ''phonograph record'' in [[American English]] and a ''gramophone record'' in [[British English]], see [[analogue disc record]].
===Computing===
* [[Record (computer science)]], a data structure
** Record, or [[row (database)]], a set of fields in a database related to one entity
** [[Boot sector]] or boot record, record used to start an operating system
** [[Storage record]], a basic input/output structure


===Documents===
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* Record, a [[document]] for administrative use
** [[Business record]], of economic transactions
** [[Criminal record]], a list of a person's criminal convictions
** [[Docket (court)]], the summary of proceedings in a court (US)
** [[Medical record]], of a person's medical history and treatments
** [[Minutes]], a summary of the proceedings at a meeting
** [[Public records]], information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies
** [[Recording (real estate)]], the act of documenting real estate transactions
** [[Service record]], usually associated with military service
** [[Transcript (law)]], a verbatim ''record'' of some proceedings, in particular a court transcript is a record of a law court case or similar procedure
* [[Archaeological record]], the body of archaeological evidence
* [[Recorded history]], a record of events that has been made for thousands of years in one form or another, e.g., oral, photographic, or written


===Images===
In [[computer science]], a '''record''' can be any of at least two different things.
* [[Moving picture]]s, film, video, and television recordings
* [[Photography]], photographic record
* [[Video recording]], of both images and sounds


===Sound===
The most common meaning is simply "an item in a [[database]]". There is a wide variety of such "records", but the most common type (the one [[relational database]]s support) is an instance of the other kind of record.
* [[Sound recording and reproduction]]
** [[Analogue recording]]
** [[Digital recording]]
** [[Phonograph record]], a mechanical analog audio storage medium
** [[Cylinder record]]
** [[Music album]]
** A recording of a [[song]]


== Arts, entertainment, and media==
The other meaning of "record" is "an aggregation of several items of possibly different types", with the implication that there are many records containing the same types of items. [[C programming language|C]] calls these "structs"; [[object-oriented]] languages often keep their records hidden inside "objects", or "class instances"; languages in the [[ML]] family have their tuples. [[COBOL]] was the first [[programming language]] to support records directly; [[Algol]] got it from COBOL, and [[Pascal_programming_language|Pascal]] got it, more or less indirectly, from Algol.
===Music===
* [[Record (Tracey Thorn album)|''Record'' (Tracey Thorn album)]]
* [[Records (album)|''Records'' (album)]], a 1982 album by rock band Foreigner
* [[Records (song)]], a 2022 song by Weezer


=== Periodicals ===
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* [[Record (magazine)|''Record'' (magazine)]], the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
* [[Record (Portuguese newspaper)|''Record'' (Portuguese newspaper)]], a Portuguese daily sports newspaper
* [[Récord (Mexican newspaper)|''Récord'' (Mexican newspaper)]], a Mexican daily sports newspaper


===Television===
A '''record''' is also an [[extreme value]], e.g. in [[sport]]s, [[weather]], [[economics]], etc.
* [[Grupo Record]], a Brazilian media conglomerate
** [[Record (TV network)]], a Brazilian TV network located in São Paulo
** [[Record News]], a Brazilian news channel owned by Grupo Record


== Sports and skills ==
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* [[FC Rekord Aleksandrov]], a former Russian association football club
* [[Rekord Irkutsk]], a Russian bandy club
* [[Rekord Stadium]], a sports arena in Irkutsk, Russia
* [[Win–loss record (pitching)]], the number of wins and losses a baseball pitcher has accumulated
Some sports clubs take their name from this word:
* [[World record]], an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic on world level


== Other uses ==
In [[law]], the '''record''' of a [[court]] case or [[administrative agency]] [[adjudication]] normally consists of the [[transcript]] or minutes of the proceedings, any [[exhibit]]s introduced in [[evidence]] at the [[hearing (law)|hearing]] or [[trial]], and any [[motion|motion papers]] filed in the case. When an [[appeal]] is taken, the [[appellate court]] reviews the decision of the [[trial court]] based on the '''record on appeal''' which consists of the record of the case from the trial court or some subset of that record. Where the original record is missing, a hearing may have to be held to reconstruct the record on appeal. Nowadays, this is rare, but was common in past centuries before [[stenography|stenographic]] equipment came into use, when transcripts of trials were not always made.
* [[Record (agricultural vehicles)]], a Greek vehicle manufacturer
* [[Record (surname)]]
* [[Record (software)]], a music recording program
* [[Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology]] or RECORD, statement (The REporting of Studies Conducted Using Observational Routinely-Collected Health Data)

== See also ==
* [[The Record (disambiguation)]]
* [[For the Record (disambiguation)]]
* [[Off the record (disambiguation)]]
* [[On Record (disambiguation)]]
* [[On the Record (disambiguation)]]
* [[Reckord]], a surname
* [[Recorder (disambiguation)]]


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Latest revision as of 20:18, 14 November 2024

Look up record, récord, or recordable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A record, recording or records may refer to:

An item or collection of data

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Computing

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Documents

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Images

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Sound

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Arts, entertainment, and media

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Music

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Periodicals

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See also: The Record (disambiguation) § Periodicals

Television

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Sports and skills

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Some sports clubs take their name from this word:

  • World record, an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic on world level

Other uses

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See also

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