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A disk, usually made of a polymer, used to record sound for playback on a phonograph.
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An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
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The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.
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Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
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We have no record of you making this payment to us.
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A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
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The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
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The heat and humidity were both new records.
Examples of record in a Sentence
Well, you haven't broken your record with me.
There's no record of this.
I was to record his eye and body movements.
It repeats itself because it is the record of the choices of people.
We keep a record of everyone who comes through.
He asked if he might record the interview in addition to taking notes.
I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.
No luck there—the tour doesn't record that.
The number of pharmaceutical patents issued in 2010 was also more than fifty thousand—also an all-time record, and also likely to be broken again and again in the years to come.
I will record you now, Zamon said.
Later, another group will test the results and record the reactions.
From a scientific standpoint it is unfortunate that it was impossible to keep such a complete record of Helen Keller's development.
At present we have here the fullest record that has been published.
On the record, tell the public this; you've been led to believe the psychic tipster is a woman of an age able to collect social security.
We haven.t been able to record everyone.s names yet, but what we have is in the guestbook in the office, down that hall, last door on the right, the woman replied, pointing to a hallway behind her.
The magic of the immortal world would continue to record their children and grandchildren on the obelisk.
We record every detail he sees eliminating his need to remember license plate and such.
Lady luck intervened when the director removed a twenty dollar bill from his wallet for a tip for the maid and Howie was able to record the bill number.
For the record, Darian, I hate you most of all.
During thunderstorms the record from an electrograph shows large sudden excursions, the trace usually going off the sheet with every flash of.
Remember your Digital Echo file, that record of everything you do and say?
As noted previously, in the future much of what you do will leave a Digital Echo, a record of its occurrence, down to the very minutia of your life.
The vehicle was different but this time he was able to record the South Carolina license plate number.
If she had any conception, there is no way of discovering it now; for she cannot remember, and obviously there was no record at the time.
Howie's record was thirty-four minutes but he felt he could extend this if needed.
Wow, that's gotta be a record for you.
In these letters we have an almost weekly record of Miss Sullivan's work.
And just for the record, I think you're quite a woman.
A record 15 percent—about one out of every seven—of new marriages in 2008 landed in the 'Marrying Out' category.
It's all public record.
Burckhardt had hoped in 1815 that the advance of the Egyptian expedition would have given him the opportunity to see something of Nejd, but he had already left Arabia before the overthrow of the Wahhabi power by Ibrahim Pasha had opened Nejd to travellers from Hejaz, and though several European officers accompanied the expedition, none of them left any record of his experience.
The instruments used for land telegraphs on this system are of two types - " sounders," which indicate by sound, and " recorders," which record the signals.
Recorders vary in details of construction, but all have the same object, namely, to record the intervals during which the current is applied to the line.
In the earlier forms of instrument the record was made by embossing lines on a ribbon of paper by means of a sharp style fixed to one end of a lever, which carried at the other end the armature of an electromagnet.
It was found impossible to make the Morse ink writer so sensitive that it could record signals sent over land lines of several hundred miles in length, if the speed of transmission was very much faster than that which could be effected by hand, and this led to the adoption of automatic methods of transmission.
At the receiving station electrical mechanisms record the signals once more as perforations in a paper strip forming an exact replica of the transmitting tape.
The record of the signals given by this instrument was an undulating line of fine perforations or spots, and the character and succession of the undulations were used to interpret the signals desired to be sent.
At the Post Office a record operator replies and takes particulars of the connexion, and these are entered upon a ticket.
The record operator then removes her speaking apparatus from the circuit, and the local operator, receiving a disconnect signal, severs the connexion at the local exchange.
Further references of great value will be found in the works of Bateson and Pearson referred to above, and in the annual volumes of the Zoological Record, particularly under the head " General Subject."
The earliest record of an apothecary's shop in London was in 1345.
Thus he placed on record the voyages of the merchant Ulfsten in the Baltic, including particulars of the geography of Germany.
The work of Marco Polo is the most valuable narrative of travels that appeared during the middle ages, and despite a cold reception and many denials of the accuracy of the record, its substantial truthfulness has been abundantly proved.
Lacerda left a valuable record of his adventurous journey; but with Mungo Park and Lacerda the history of African exploration in the 18th century closes.
Wagner's year-book, Geographische Jahrbuch, published at Gotha, is the best systematic record of the progress of geography in all departments; and Haack's Geografihen Kalender, also published annually at Gotha, gives complete lists of the geographical societies and geographers of the world.
But the whole mass of bones is in hopeless disorder, apparently without any record of association.
A record of patristic collections and editions down to 1839 may be found in Dowling's Notitia Scriptorum SS.
The Ahom language is the oldest member of the Tai branch of the Siamese-Chinese linguistic family of which we have any record.
It is possible that Minehead had a corporate existence during the 15th century, as certain documents executed by the portreeve and burgesses at that date are preserved, but no record of the grant of a charter has been found.
It forms a contemporary record of great value to the historian.