A record, recording or records may refer to:

An item or collection of data

Computing

Record (computer science) In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct (C programming language), struct, or compound data) is a basic data structure. Records in a database or spreadsheet are usually called "row (database), rows". A record is a collectio ...

, 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

* Record, a

document A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin ''Documentum'', which denotes a "teaching" o ...

Business record A business record is a document (hard copy or digital) that records an "act, condition, or event" related to business. Business records include meeting minutes, memoranda, employment contracts, and accounting source documents. It must be retrievab ...

, of economic transactions **

Criminal record A criminal record, police record, or colloquially RAP sheet (Record of Arrests and Prosecutions) is a record of a person's criminal history. The information included in a criminal record and the existence of a criminal record varies between coun ...

, a list of a person's criminal convictions ** Docket (court), the summary of proceedings in a court (US) **

Medical record The terms medical record, health record and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdic ...

, 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 A service record is a collection of either electronic or printed material which provides a documentary history of a person's activities and accomplishments while serving as a member of a given organization. Service records are most often associ ...

, usually associated with military service **

Transcript (law) A transcript is a written record of spoken language. In court proceedings, a transcript is usually a record of all decisions of the judge, and the spoken arguments by the litigants' lawyers. A related term used in the United States is docket, no ...

, 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 archaeological record is the body of physical (not written) evidence about the past. It is one of the core concepts in archaeology, the academic discipline concerned with documenting and interpreting the archaeological record. Archaeological t ...

, the body of archaeological evidence *

Recorded history Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method. For broader world his ...

, a record of events that has been made for thousands of years in one form or another, e.g., oral, photographic, or written

Images

Moving picture A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

s, film, video, and television recordings *

Photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

, photographic record *

Video recording Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems ...

, of both images and sounds

Sound

Sound recording and reproduction Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording ...

Analogue recording Analog recording is a technique used for the recording of analog signals which, among many possibilities, allows analog audio for later playback. Analog audio recording began with mechanical systems such as the phonautograph and phonograph. L ...

Digital recording In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for video. This number stream is saved to a storag ...

** Phonograph record, a mechanical analog audio storage medium

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Record'' (Tracey Thorn album) * ''Records'' (album), a 1982 album by rock band Foreigner *

Records (song) "Records" is a song by the American rock band Weezer, released on June 16, 2022, as the first single from the second of their planned 2022 series of four extended plays '' SZNZ: Summer''. Release "Records" was released as a single on June 16, 20 ...

, a 2022 song by Weezer

Periodicals

* ''Record'' (magazine), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists * ''Record'' (newspaper), a Portuguese daily sports newspaper * ''

Récord ''Récord'' is a Mexican daily sports newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide va ...

'', a Mexican daily sports newspaper * ''

The Philadelphia Record ''The Philadelphia Record'' was a daily newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1877 until 1947. It became among the most circulated papers in the city and was at some points the circulation leader. History ''The Public Record'' ...

'', a newspaper in Philadelphia published 1877–1947 * ''

The Yale Record ''The Yale Record'' is the campus humor magazine of Yale University. Founded in 1872, it became the oldest humor magazine in the world when ''Punch'' folded in 2002."History", The Yale Record, March 10, 2010. http://www.yalerecord.com/about/histo ...

'', the USA's oldest college humor magazine, operated out of New Haven, Connecticut

Television

Record News Record News (formerly known as Rede Mulher) is the first 24-hour free-to-air terrestrial news channel in Brazil, and the third Brazilian news channel to be launched after GloboNews and BandNews TV. It is owned by RecordTV. History In 1953, ...

, the RecordTV's news channel 1 *

RecordTV RecordTV (), formerly known as Rede Record, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In 2010, it was elected by the adver ...

, a Brazilian TV network located in São Paulo

Sports and skills

* FC Rekord Aleksandrov, a former Russian association football club *

Rekord Irkutsk Rekord Irkutsk or DYuSSh Rekord (russian: «ДЮСШ Рекорд» Иркутск) is a bandy club from Irkutsk, Russia. It was founded in 1986. The club colours are black and blue. Rekord Irkutsk won the Bandy World Cup Women Bandy World Cup ...

, a Russian bandy club *

Rekord Stadium Rekord Stadium is a sports venue in Irkutsk. It is the home of Baykal-Energiya Baykal-Energiya (russian: Байкал-Энергия) is a bandy club from Irkutsk, Russia. The team plays in the Russian Bandy Super League, the highest level of R ...

, a sports arena in Irkutsk, Russia *

Win–loss record (pitching) In baseball and softball, a win–loss record (also referred to simply as a record) indicates the number of wins (denoted "W") and losses (denoted "L") credited to a pitcher. For example, a 20–10 win–loss record would represent 20 wins and 10 ...

, the number of wins and losses a baseball pitcher has accumulated Some sports clubs take their name from this word: *

World record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

, an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic on world level

Other uses

Record (agricultural vehicles) Record A.E.B.E. (brand also spelled in Greek as Ρεκόρ) was the name of a Greek company producing agricultural machinery and vehicles, founded in Heraklion, Crete in 1957 and dissolved in 1999. Its products have included walking tractors (sin ...

, 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)