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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

recording

noun

1: signal encoding something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded

2: the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" [syn: {transcription}]

3: a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]

1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] ''I it you record.'' --Chaucer.

2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]

They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.

3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42.

{To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Recording \Re*cord"ing\, adjective Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "recording": account, annals, apograph, booking, carbon, carbon copy, cartridge, cassette, catalog, cataloging, chronicle, chronicling, correspondence, disc, documentation, electrical transcription, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, fiche, history, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventory, inventorying, letters, list, listing, logging, manifold, matriculation, memorial, microcopy, microfiche, microform, phonograph record, pipe roll, posting, record, record keeping, recordation, recordative, register, registration, registrational, registry, relic, remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbing, scroll, self-recording, table, tabulation, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, tenor, token, trace, tracing, transcript, transcription, transfer, vestige, wax, wire recording

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