n., A document made or received in the course of a practical activity as an instrument or a by-product of such activity, and set aside for action or reference. Syn.: archival document. [Archives - Authenticity Task Force Report , Page: 21 ]

n., In data processing, a grouping of interrelated data elements forming the basic unit of a file. [Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]

n., Recorded information (documents) regardless of form or medium created, received and maintained by an agency, institution, organization or individual in pursuance or its legal obligations or in the transaction of business. [Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]

n., Document(s) produced or received by a person or organisation in the course of business, and retained by that person or organisation. A record may incorporate one or several documents (e.g. when one document has attachments), and may be on any medium in any format. In addition to the content of the document(s), it should include contextual information and, if applicable, structural information (i.e. information which describes the components of the record). A key feature of a record is that it cannot be changed. [Archives - Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records (MoReq) - Glossary , Page: 106 ]

n., Recorded information produced or received in the initiation, conduct or completion of an institutional or individual activity that comprises content, context and structure sufficient to provide evidence of the activity. [Archives - Guide for Managing Electronic Records from an Archival Perspective , Page: 25 ]

n., A representation of a fact or act that is memorialized on a physical carrier-that is, a medium-and preserved by a physical or juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. [Archives - Authenticity Task Force Final Report , Page: 27-28 ]

n., Documents created or received by public authorities in the course of carrying out their public function. [Archives - School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) Glossary ]

n., Data or information that has been fixed on some medium; that has content, context, and structure; and that is used as an extension of human memory or accountability. [Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]

n., A document created or received and maintained by an agency, organization, or individual in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business. [Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]

n., Recorded information, regardless of medium, created, received, and maintained by an agency, institution, organization, or individual in pursuance of its legal obligations or in the transaction of business. [Arts - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ]

n., Any electronic, photographic or mechanical recording of music, singing, dialogue, sound effects or visual events, in cluding CDs, DVDs, audio tapes, films, videos and the like. [Arts - Filmmaker’s Dictionary ]

n., A document preserving an account of fact in permanent form, irrespective of media or characteristics. [Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]

n., An ordered set of fields, usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record" probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of several other types (C calls this a "struct"). [Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]

n., The documents constituting an authentic account of the proceedings before a court, including the claim form or other originating process, the statements of case, and the judgment or order, but usually not the evidence tendered. [Government - A Dictionary of Law ]