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, or compound data) is a basic data structure. Records in a database or spreadsheet are usually called "rows". A record is a collection of ''fields'', possibly of different data typ ...

, a data structure ** Record, or

row (database) In the context of a relational database, a row—also called a tuple—represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table. In simple terms, a database table can be thought of as consisting of ''rows'' and columns.Boot sector or boot record, record used to start an operating system **

Storage record In computer science{{citation needed, date=July 2016, a storage record is: * A group of related data, words, or fields treated as a meaningful unit; for instance, a Name, Address, and Telephone Number can be a "Personal Record". * A self-contained c ...

, 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" or ...

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 retriev ...

, 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) A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law. In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something, with similar meanings to these two elsewhere. In the late ...

, 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 Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (abbreviation MoM), protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. They typically describe the events of the meeting and may include a list of attendees, a state ...

, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting **

Public records Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government. For example, in California, when a couple fills out a marriage license application, they have the optio ...

, 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

* Moving pictures, film, video, and television recordings * Photography, photographic record * Video recording, of both images and sounds

Sound

* Sound recording and reproduction ** Analogue recording ** Digital recording ** Phonograph record, a mechanical analog audio storage medium

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

* Record (magazine), ''Record'' (magazine), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists * Record (newspaper), ''Record'' (newspaper), a Portuguese daily sports newspaper * ''Récord'', a Mexican daily sports newspaper * ''The Philadelphia Record'', a newspaper in Philadelphia published 1877–1947 * ''The Yale Record'', the USA's oldest college humor magazine, operated out of New Haven, Connecticut

Television

* Record News, the RecordTV's news channel 1 * RecordTV, a Brazilian TV network located in São Paulo

Sports and skills

* 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

* 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)