Register
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Register or registration may mean:
- Registration (or licensing) is required of a number of occupations and professions where maintenance of standards is required to protect public safety. For example, physicians, psychologists, and electricians are registered in many countries.
- Image registration, part of computer vision
- Register (linguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting
- Register tone (linguistics), tones that are distinguished by relative pitch rather than contour
- Register language is a language that combines tone with phonation
- Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments
- Registration in lithography and photography refers to the accurate placement of the separate parts of multi-color images.
- Registration in animation refers to placing drawings in exact position to one another.
- Cash register, a mechanical or electronic device for recording and tracking retail transactions, and which often stores money
- Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition, configuration, or buffer
- Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information, such as a memory address, or the inputs or results of a computation
- Securities registration, a financial procedure regulated in the US by the Securities Act of 1933.
- FCC registration program for telephone equipment
- The registration of a vehicle with a government agency to obtain or renew a vehicle registration plate (license plate)
- Register, Georgia
- Register is an adjustable device through which heated or cooled air enters an area
- John Register, Contemporary modernist American painter.
- The Register, a technology news website
- Des Moines Register, a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa
- The New Haven Register, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut
- The Orange County Register, a newspaper in Santa Ana, California
- The Federal Register, which is published by the US Government. It provides information about US Federal laws, politic meatings etc.
Linguistics
A variety of language specific to a certain situation. For example, "I am grateful for your assistance" belongs to the formal register, while "cheers for the help" belongs to the informal.See also
- Registry, a written, official or formal record of information, or the place where such records are kept. A government agency which performs this function is often known as a "registry" (eg. registry of births, deaths and marriages), and the official records which such agencies administer are known as a "register" (eg. register of trade marks).
- Registrar, official charged with maintaining official records.
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