Register - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The word register can have several meanings. Very often it means: something that is written down so that there is a record (written proof) of something. It may, for example be a list of names.

It can also be used as a verb: to register, i.e. to write something down in an official register (e.g. a special book), e.g. to register a birth, marriage or death.

Registration is the act of registering or being registered.

• Aircraft registration, compulsory registration of an aircraft with a government authority
• Check register, booklet used to record account transactions
• Family register, a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest
• Regesta, a record of assets in ancient Rome, from which the English word register is derived
• Registered mail, trackable mail service available in most countries
• Registered nurse
• Registered partnership, similar to a civil union
• Registered trademark symbol
• Registration statement, in the United States, a set of documents including a prospectus, that a company must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission before it proceeds with an initial public offering
• Summit register (or canister), record of visitors to a mountain's summit
• Vehicle registration, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority
• Vehicle registration plate, metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes
• Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll

• Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
• FCC registration program, relating to telephone equipment in the United States
• Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
• Image registration, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system
• Printing registration, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image
• Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information
• Quantum register, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register
• Register, an air-return vent or heating air duct in home and office heating.
• Register (photography), attribute of a lens mount system
• Register (sculpture), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
• Register signaling, in telecommunications
• Registered user, one who registers for a program or website and provides his or her credentials to access it
• Status register, a collection of flag bits for a micro-processor

• Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
• Register (phonology), a language that combines tone with phonation
• Register (sociolinguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting

• The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa newspaper
• Federal Register, public journal of the United States federal government
• New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut newspaper
• The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California, newspaper
• The Register, genealogical journal and the official publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
• The Register (originally South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register), first newspaper in South Australia
• The Register, technology news website
• Sheffield Register, a defunct Sheffield, England, newspaper

• Indian Register of Shipping
• International Register of Shipping
• Korean Register of Shipping
• Lloyd's Register
• Naval Vessel Register
• Norwegian International Ship Register
• Norwegian Ship Register
• Polish Register of Shipping
• Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
• USS Register, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

• Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, musical instrument, etc.
• Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to make the right sound for the piece of music

• Registration acts (comics), fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics

• Register, Georgia, United States

• Incorporation (business)—includes registration of a corporation
• Licensure
• Registry (disambiguation)
• Registrar

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