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Encyclopedia > Registers

  • Historically, a register was a sign or chalkboard onto which people would write cash transactions for later bookkeeping, often with chalk. It can also be used to mean a paper register such as one would keep of a check book.
  • To register a charity means to apply to the government for a non-profit organisation to be officially recognised as such, and thus gain more credibility and possible tax relief.
  • In Britain and Australia, births, deaths, and marriages are registered at a registry office.
  • In trade and commerce, the term register is used in Australia and America as a short form for cash register, a device for tracking retail sales and known to the British as a till. This name came into use because the cash register generally replaced earlier registers in use.
  • In digital circuits, registers are various devices used to store and process data, implemented with multivibrators to form e.g. flip-flops. In computing, a hardware register is a placeholder for information about some hardware condition, configuration, or buffer, whereas a processor register is a component inside a central processing unit for storing information, such as a memory address, or the inputs or results of a computation. The origin of the name is similar.
  • In animal fancy, a register or registry is used to record specimens of a pure breed.
  • In music, register is the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments.
  • The Register [1] (http://www.theregister.co.uk/) is a technology news website.
  • A register is a subset of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, the average English speaker will likely adhere more closely to prescribed grammar, pronounce gerunds and present participles with a /N/ sound, and refrain from using the word "ain't" when speaking in a formal setting, but the same person could violate all of those restrictions in an informal setting; these two varieties of speech are separate registers of English.
  • A register is an outlet for forced air, usually as part of a forced air heating and cooling system.

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Processor register - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (543 words)
In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of very fast computer memory used to speed the execution of computer programs by providing quick access to commonly used values—typically, the values being in the midst of a calculation at a given point in time.
Registers are normally measured by the number of bits they can hold, for example, an "8-bit register" or a "32-bit register".
Registers are now usually implemented as a register file, but they have also been implemented using individual flip-flops, high speed core memory, thin film memory, and other ways in various machines.
Register - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (412 words)
Register (linguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting
Register language is a language that combines tone with phonation
Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments
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