REGISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does registration mean? 

• REGISTRATION (noun)
  The noun REGISTRATION has 5 senses:

1. the act of enrolling

2. the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time

3. a document certifying an act of registering

4. (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops

5. the act of adjusting something to match a standard

  Familiarity information: REGISTRATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of enrolling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enrollment; enrolment; registration

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

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

Derivation:

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

enrollment; registration

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

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A document certifying an act of registering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

certificate; certification; credential; credentials (a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts)

Derivation:

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

sound property (an attribute of sound)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Derivation:

register (manipulate the registers of an organ)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of adjusting something to match a standard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adjustment; readjustment; registration

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

calibration; standardisation; standardization (the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument)

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

alignment (the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other)

collimation (the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope)

temperament (an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys)

tune-up (adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance)

synchronisation; synchronising; synchronization; synchronizing (an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison)

voicing (the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color)

Derivation:

register (indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments)

 Context examples 

A category used to describe the registration status of a clinical study investigator with the regulatory authority agency, such as the FDA, or the investigator activity status within a particular study.

(Investigator Status, NCI Thesaurus)

A category used to describe the registration status of a clinical study investigator with the FDA.

(Investigator Registration Status, NCI Thesaurus)

I found no difficulty about the registration, and arranged with the local undertaker to come up in the evening to measure for the coffin and to make arrangements.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A category used to describe the registration status of a clinical study investigator in a particular study.

(Investigator Status in Study, NCI Thesaurus)

On Friday, a network of diverse Internet-connected devices targeted the Dyn domain registration service provider.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

Their duties include taking impressions and bite registrations for preparing and repairing dentures and fitting dentures.

(Denturist, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical study that includes some, but not all, of the eligible patients identified by the researchers during the study registration period.

(Nonconsecutive case series, NCI Dictionary)

The relative timing for a planned activity expressed as the number of days offset from the study-defined reference activity (e.g. , date of registration, start of treatment) for a particular subject.

(Planned Activity Study Day Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The relative timing for a performed activity expressed as the number of days offset from the study-defined reference activity (e.g. date of registration, start of treatment) for this particular subject.

(Performed Activity Study Day Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Results of two imaging modalities after a registration process is used to merge these.

(Fused Image, NCI Thesaurus)