Dictionary Definition
registration
Noun
1 the act of enrolling [syn: enrollment, enrolment]
2 the body of people (such as students) who
register or enroll at the same time [syn: enrollment]
3 a document certifying an act of
registering
4 (music) the sound property resulting from a
combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of
music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops
5 the act of adjusting something to match a
standard [syn: adjustment, readjustment]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- the act of signing
up or registering for something
- Complete the registration process
- that which registers or makes something
official, e.g. the
form or paper that registers
- Did you submit your car registration yet?
- alignment, e.g. of colors or other elements in a printing process
- the location where guests register, especially with a hotel.
- The elevators are just past registration.''
Translations
the act of signing up or registering for
something
- German: Registrierung
- Japanese: 登録 (tōroku)
that which registers or makes something official
- German: Registrierung
- Japanese: 登録 (tōroku)
alignment
the location where guests register
Extensive Definition
Register may refer to:
- Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
- Register signaling, which communicates the calling and/or called telephone number across a telephone line
- Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
- Processor register, a component inside a CPU for storing information
- Register (linguistics), (see below on this page)
- Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc
- Register (sculpture), in sculpture, areas segmented with lines, used in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs, Kudurru boundary stones, etc.
Registration may refer to:
- Image registration, part of computer vision
- Printing registration, part of printing visible colour
- FCC registration program for telephone equipment
- Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll
- Vehicle registration plate, also known as a license plate
- Aircraft registration
- Licensure required in occupations where maintenance of standards is required to protect public safety
- Registered mail: a trackable mail service available in most countries
- A financial procedure regulated in the US by the Securities Act of 1933
- Becoming, or applying to become, a registered user
- Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound
- Vocal registration, the system of registers within the human voice used in both speech and song
Linguistics:
- Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
- Register (linguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting
- Register (phonology), a language that combines tone with phonation
Computing
- A keyword in the C and C++ languages which denotes that a variable should be located in a processor register
Places:
People:
- John Register, a contemporary American painter
Publications:
- The Register, a technology news website
- Des Moines Register, a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa
- The New Haven Register, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut
- The Orange County Register, a newspaper in Santa Ana, California
- The Federal Register, a publication of the US Government
See also
- Registry, a formal record of information
- Registrar (disambiguation), an official charged with maintaining records
- Wikipedia registration
registration in Czech: Registr
registration in Danish: Register
registration in German: Register
registration in Spanish: Registro
registration in French: Registre
registration in Galician: Rexistro
registration in Korean: 레지스터
registration in Italian: Registro
registration in Lithuanian: Registras
registration in Hungarian: Regiszter
registration in Dutch: Register
registration in Japanese: レジスタ
registration in Norwegian: Register
registration in Norwegian Nynorsk:
Register
registration in Polish: Rejestr
registration in Portuguese: Registo
registration in Russian: Регистр
registration in Slovak: Register
registration in Finnish: Rekisteri
registration in Swedish: Register
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
booking, cataloging, chronicling, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, filing, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, itemization, listing, logging, matriculation, posting, record keeping,
recordation,
recording, register, registry, tabulation