recording
//ɹɪˈkɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ//
Forms
- Plural
- recordings
Definitions
1.present participle and gerund of record
1.The act of storing sound, video, etc., in a permanent medium.
- The one-party consent law permits the recording of telephone calls with the consent of at least one of the parties.
2.A reproduction of sound, video, etc., stored in a permanent medium.
- I made a recording of the TV show so that I could watch it later.
- But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
- The resulting integrated neurograms were then studied, and only the recordings with bursts that reached a signal:noise ratio of at least 3:1 were accepted for analysis.
3.The act of registering for something; registration.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3373
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
By surface analysis, record + -ing.