Record is also a music album by Montreal-based band Sofa. You may also be looking for The Record.

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.

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. In the 1980s, vinyl record somewhat supplanted the term gramophone record especially when in the context of music albums being released in an analogue disc or Compact disc format.

See: DVD recorders.

Computers

In computer science, a record is either an item in a database or a simple aggregation type. See record (computer science).

Value

A record is also an extreme value that would be considered worthy of recording for posterity, e.g. in sports, weather, economics, etc. See world record for more examples.

Law

In law, the record of a court case or administrative agency adjudication normally consists of the transcript or minutes of the proceedings, any exhibits introduced in evidence at the hearing or trial, and any motion papers filed in the case. When an appeal is taken, the appellate court reviews the decision of the trial court based on the record on appeal which consists of the record of the case from the trial court or some subset of that record. Where the original record is missing, a hearing may have to be held to reconstruct the record on appeal. Nowadays, this is rare, but was common in past centuries before stenographic equipment came into use, when transcripts of trials were not always made. (See also court of record.)