recording Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
  2. noun the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
    transcription.
    • she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth
  3. noun a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
  4. verb make a record of; set down in permanent form
    record; put down; enter.
  5. verb register electronically
    record; tape.
    • They recorded her singing
  6. verb indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
    read; record; register; show.
    • The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
    • The gauge read `empty'
  7. verb be aware of
    record; register.
    • Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
  8. verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
    immortalize; memorialise; commemorate; record; memorialize; immortalise.
    • This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
    • We memorialized the Dead

WordNet


Re*cord"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

Webster 1913