A record, recording or records may refer to:

An item or collection of data

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

  • 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

  • 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
  • Cylinder record
  • Music album
  • A recording of a song

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Record (Tracey Thorn album)
  • Records (album), a 1982 album by rock band Foreigner
  • Records (song), a 2022 song by Weezer

Periodicals

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

Television

  • 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

  • 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)

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)