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A register is an authoritative list of one kind of information.

Register or registration may refer to:

Arts entertainment, and media

Music

  • Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc.
  • Register, a 2017 album by Travis Miller
  • Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound

Periodicals

Australia

United Kingdom

United States

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Register (art), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
  • Registration acts (comics), fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics
  • The Register, a technology news website

Documents, records and government

  • Register, official student records kept by an academic institution's Registrar
  • Check register, booklet used to record account transactions
  • Civil registration, government recording of births, marriages, and deaths
  • Company register, a record of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under
  • Family register, a registry used to track information of genealogical or legal interest
  • Registration statement, a set of U.S. legal documents
  • Resident registration, government recording of place of residence
  • Summit register (or canister), record of visitors to a mountain's summit
  • Vehicle registration, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority
  • Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll

Linguistics

  • Register (sociolinguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting
  • Register (phonology), a sound system that combines tone with phonation
  • Vocal register, the range of tones in the human voice

Maritime

  • Ship registration, the process by which a ship is documented
  • Watercraft registration, compulsory registration of a watercraft with a government authority

Registry organizations

  • Indian Register of Shipping, an independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975
  • International Register of Shipping, an independent classification society
  • Korean Register of Shipping, a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea
  • Lloyd's Register, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society
  • Norwegian International Ship Register, a Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels
  • Norwegian Ship Register, a domestic ship register for Norway
  • Polish Register of Shipping, an independent classification society established in 1936
  • Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, an international classification society established in 1913

Other maritime uses

  • USS Register, several United States Navy ships
  • Naval Vessel Register, the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

  • Register (C programming language), a reserved word (keyword) and type modifier
  • Register (codebook), a codebook, a finite list of defined terms, used i.e. as a primary key in databases
  • Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
  • Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information
    • Quantum register, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register
  • Register signaling, in telecommunications
  • Register.com, a domain registrar

Other technologies

  • Camera register or flange focal distance, distance from the mounting flange to the film plane of an interchangeable lens camera
  • Cash register, a device for recording cash transactions and storing cash
  • Image registration, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system
  • Printing registration, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image
  • User registration, the process of becoming a registered user

Other uses

  • Register (surname), a list of people with the surname
  • Register, Georgia, a town in The United States
  • Register (air and heating), synonym of "grille", "return" in HVAC system

See also

  • Registered (disambiguation)
  • Registrar (disambiguation)
  • Registry (disambiguation)
  • All pages beginning with "Register" or similar forms
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