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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something on which sound or visual images have been recorded.
  • noun A recorded sound or picture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Keeping a record or a register; ; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of record.
  • noun A reproduction of sound and/or video, stored in a permanent medium.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
  • noun a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
  • noun the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

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