re·cord (rĭ-kôrdˈ)

1. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
2. To register or indicate.

1. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
2. A medical record.
3. In dentistry, a registration of desired jaw relations in a plastic material or on a device so that such relations may be transferred to an articulator.
4. The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
5. A collection of related, often adjacent items of computer data, treated as a unit.