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RECORDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making a record (especially an audio record)
Example:
she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth
Synonyms:
recording; transcription
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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 2
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 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))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb record
Context examples:
The coding system to use for recording results for the associated activity or evaluation.
(Defined Observation Result Target Coding System, NCI Thesaurus)
I ordered Zambo, therefore, to come again in the evening, and I spent my miserable and lonely day in recording my own adventures of the night before.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An assessment of skeletal muscle function and nerve control, obtained by recording and studying the intrinsic electrical properties of the muscles.
(Electromyography, NCI Thesaurus)
A recording device or display that continuously keeps track of the function, condition, or operation of the system or organism and warns of an abnormal or potentially dangerous situation.
(Monitoring Device, NCI Thesaurus)
Electrical recordings showed that some of these cells fired when a bar of light passed across the retina from left to right, whereas others responded to light crossing in the opposite direction.
(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)
Electrical recordings and tracing experiments showed that many of the hypothalamic MCH cells sent inhibitory messages, via long stringy axons, to the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
An electrocardiogram (ECG) lead placement that allows monitoring and recording of cardiac electrical activity.
(Lead Placement Pseudo Orthogonal XYZ, NCI Thesaurus)
Though the sample will be small – only a couple of pounds at most – it will be a time capsule of sorts recording our solar system's creation.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
The date on which the recording of the patient medical history was finished.
(Medical History Completion Date, NCI Thesaurus)
To answer this question, the team visited 26 museums around the world, recording coat color for more than 2,700 specimens collected in the winter.
(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)
