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 t ...
, 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
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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".
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, 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 ...
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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
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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)
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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 jurisd ...
, of a person's medical history and treatments
** Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting
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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
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Recording (real estate)
The vast majority of states in the United States employ a system of recording legal instruments (otherwise known as deeds registration) that affect the title of real estate as the exclusive means for publicly documenting land titles and interest ...
, 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
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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 pictures, film, video, and television recordings
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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 emplo ...
, photographic record
* Video recording, of both images and sounds
Sound
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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 ...
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 storage ...
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near ...
* ''Record'' (magazine), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
* ''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
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:
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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
Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology The STROBE ''(STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology)'' Statement is a reporting guideline including a checklist of 22 items that are considered essential for good reporting of observational studies. It was published s ...
or RECORD, statement (The REporting of Studies Conducted Using Observational Routinely-Collected Health Data)