Register

For an official keeper of records or a place where records are kept, see Registrar. For people named Register, see Register (surname).

A register, among other definitions, is a record in writing. As a verb it is to record or to be recorded in an official list. Registration is the act of registering or being registered.

Documents, records and government

• Regesta, a record of assets in ancient Rome, from which the English word register is derived
• Registered mail, trackable mail service available in most countries
• Family register, a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest
• Summit register (or canister), record of visitors to a mountain's summit
• Check register, booklet used to record account transactions
• Registration statement, in the United States, a set of documents including a prospectus, that a company must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission before it proceeds with an initial public offering
• Registered partnership, similar to a civil union
• Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll
• Vehicle registration, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority
• Vehicle registration plate, metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes
• Aircraft registration, compulsory registration of an aircraft with a government authority
• Registered trademark symbol
• Registered nurse

Technology and telecommunication

• Register signaling
• FCC registration program, relating to telephone equipment in the United States
• Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
• Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information
• Printing registration, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image
• Registered user, one who registers for a program or website and provides his or her credentials to access it
• Image registration, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system
• Register (sculpture), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
• Register (photography), attribute of a lens mount system
• Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
• Register, an air-return vent in home and office heating.

Linguistics

• Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
• Register (sociolinguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting
• Register (phonology), a language that combines tone with phonation

Publications

• The Register, genealogical journal and the official publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
• The Register, technology news website
• The Register (originally South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register), first newspaper in South Australia
• The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa newspaper
• New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut newspaper
• The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California, newspaper
• Sheffield Register, a defunct Sheffield, England, newspaper
• Federal Register, public journal of the United States federal government

Maritime

• USS Register, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
• Registers of ships. See Lloyd's Register, Naval Vessel Register, International Register of Shipping, Norwegian Ship Register Norwegian International Ship Register, Indian Register of Shipping, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Korean Register of Shipping, Polish Register of Shipping, Polish Register of Shipping

Music

• Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc
• Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound

Comics

• Registration acts (comics), fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics

See also

• Incorporation (business)—includes registration of a corporation
• Registry
• Licensure