Registration
[redʒɪ'streɪʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛdʒɪ'streʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of enrolling.
(noun.) (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.
(noun.) a document certifying an act of registering.
(noun.) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time.
Checked by Hank--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
(v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Checker: Zachariah
Examples
- Those of registration, which they call the Controle, are. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In France, there are both stamp duties and duties upon registration. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This arrangement interfered with correct meter registration, as the meters on one side of the system registered backward during the hours in which the combination was employed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Those modes of taxation by stamp duties and by duties upon registration, are of very modern invention. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the character of a registration-agent I had a most interesting gossip with his landlady. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In 1915 the registrations totaled nearly 2,500,000, and every day has added to the number. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Paul