record

About 70.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

   The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.

2. noun Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

   We have no record of you making this payment to us.

3. noun Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).

   I still like records better than CDs.

4. noun A music album; broadly, any music released as a single, EP, etc.
5. noun A set of data relating to a single individual or item.

   Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?

6. noun A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C# and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
7. noun The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

   The heat and humidity were both new records.

8. adjective Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; historic.

Similar words

phonograph record book register read disk disc show memorialize commemorate enter

Often followed by

of the in for is and that office as

Word family

recordable recorded recording records