Recording
[rɪ'kɔːdɪŋ] or [rɪ'kɔrdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making a record (especially an audio record); 'she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth'.
(noun.) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded.
(noun.) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Record
(a.) Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
Typed by Elvin
Examples
- And if there were, they had no recording scribes to embalm their efforts in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Edison constructed a primitive machine capable of recording and reproducing sounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He replaced the recording pencil with a fountain pen, and instead of the zigzag signals used the short and long lines that came to be called dots and dashes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The use of the thermometer in recording the progress of fevers is also a valuable modern application, and the list of instruments and small tools is beyond enumeration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Suspended above, but in contact with the surface of the blank, is a recording needle or stylus, attached to a diaphragm which, in turn, is connected to an amplifying horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After recording a considerable number of other experiments, the laboratory notes go on to state: November 30, 1875. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was experimenting, he says, on an automatic method of recording telegraph messages on a disk of paper laid on a revolving platen, exactly the same as the disk talking-machine of to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By this time great astronomers like Tycho Brahe and Valherius had divided the time-recording dials into minutes and seconds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Morse's telegraph is a recording instrument, that embosses the symbols upon paper, with a point pressed down upon it by an electro-magnet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It should be remembered that the deepest cut of the recording tool is only about one-third the thickness of tissue-paper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is designed for taking observations of heavenly bodies and recording mechanically the parts of the astronomical triangle used in navigation and like work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That was an epic struggle, well worth the recording. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For the greater part of that time the days passed, and brought nothing with them worth recording. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Vlad