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Record is (as a noun) any set of data kept, and (as a verb) to set down data to be kept. Such data may be writing, audio, digital, or other media.

1 Sound and Video

The first type of sound recording which became commonly known as a record was the phonograph cylinder. In the 1910s this was largely eclypsed in popularity by the disc type that spins on a turntable, the gramophone record, also commonly known as a phonograph record in American English . Record also used in the sense of album, including in other media than the analogue disc.

See: CD/ DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto recorders.

2 Computers

In computer scienceIn its most general sense, computer science CS or compsci is the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. Introduction Computer science encomposses a variety of topics relating to computation, ranging from abstrac, a record is either an item in a database or a simple aggregation type. See record (computer science)In computer science, a record can be any of several different things: One common meaning is simply "an item in a database". In relational databases these are also called tuples a term inherited from relational algebra. Another common computer science mean.

3 Value

A record is also an extreme valueAn extreme value or record is a maximum or minimum . For a differentiable function a necessary condition is that it is a stationary point. In the case of a general partial order one should not confuse a least element (smaller than all other) and a minimal that would be considered worthy of recording for posterity, e.g. in sportA sport consists of a normal physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of thess, weatherWeather comprises all the various phenomena that occur in the atmosphere of a planet. On Earth the regular events include wind, storms, rain, and snow, which occur in the troposphere or the lower part of the atmosphere. Weather is driven by energy from th, economicsEconomics is the social science studying how society uses its limited resources to meet desires and wants. Put otherwise, economics studies what, how and for whom society produces. This involves analyzing the production, distribution and consumption of go, etc. See world recordA world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. In the United States the form world's record was formerly more common. In a number of sports, such as athletics or swimming world records are set in a number of events for more examples.



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