RECORDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recording mean? 

• RECORDING (noun)
  The noun RECORDING has 3 senses:

1. a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded

2. the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

3. a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

  Familiarity information: RECORDING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECORDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("recording" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recording"):

bologram; bolograph (record or recording made by a bolometer)

chromatogram (the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography)

oscillogram (the recording produced by an oscillograph)

spirogram (a recording of breathing made with a spirograph)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making a record (especially an audio record)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recording; transcription

Context example:

she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth

Hypernyms ("recording" is a kind of...):

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

Domain member category:

tape record (record with a tape recorder)

prerecord (record before presentation, as of a broadcast)

accession (make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library)

delete; erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recording"):

lip sync; lip synch; lip synchronisation; lip synchronization (combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of his speech)

mastering (the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made)

Derivation:

record (register electronically)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("recording" is a kind of...):

memory device; storage device (a device that preserves information for retrieval)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recording"):

CD; compact disc; compact disk (a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser)

cover; cover song; cover version (a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else)

audio; audio recording; sound recording (a recording of acoustic signals)

tape; tape recording; taping (a recording made on magnetic tape)

transcription (a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording))

video; video recording (a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program))

 Context examples 

A recording of electrical activity in the brain.

(EEG, NCI Dictionary)

The process by which an image is acquired by recording light emissions on radiation-sensitive paper.

(Photography, NCI Thesaurus)

The team has confirmed by recording cerebral electrical activity- that the neuronal activity of two people involved in an act of communication synchronize in order to allow for a connection between both subjects.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The act of observing and recording the heart rate for determining the baseline values and any variations or other abnormal tracings.

(Heart Monitoring, NCI Thesaurus)

The process by which an image is acquired by recording light emissions.

(Photography, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Recording multiple observation results in a diary.

(Defined Subject Activity Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The act of observing and recording the fetal heart rate for determining the baseline values and any variations or other abnormal tracings.

(Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, NCI Thesaurus)

Failure to pace manifests as absence of pacemaker stimulation artifacts on electrocardiographic recordings despite rates below pacemaker programmed rate.

(Failure of Cardiac Pacemaker to Pace, NCI Thesaurus)

Electrodes can also carry electrical signals from muscles, brain, heart, skin, or other body parts to recording devices to help diagnose certain conditions.

(Electrode, NCI Dictionary)