Arts entertainment, and media

Music

Register (music) A register is the "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument, or group of instruments. A higher register indicates higher pitch. *Example 1: Violins are in a higher register than cellos. In wood ...

, the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc. * ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller * Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound

Periodicals

Australia

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South Australian Register ''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and f ...

'', later ''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register''

United Kingdom

* '' Sheffield Register'', England * '' Socialist Register'', an annual British journal * ''

The Register ''The Register'' is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson. The online newspaper's masthead sublogo is "''Biting the hand that feeds IT''." Their primary focus is information tec ...

'', a technology news website

United States

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Federal Register The ''Federal Register'' (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published every weekday, except on fede ...

'', a public journal of the United States federal government * ''

Napa Valley Register The ''Napa Valley Register'' is a daily newspaper located in Napa, California. The paper began publication on August 10, 1863. By 1864, the newspaper had dropped “Valley” from its name, becoming simply the ''Napa Register'', until returning ...

'', Napa Valley, California * ''

National Catholic Register The ''National Catholic Register'' is a Catholic newspaper in the United States. It was founded on November 8, 1927, by Matthew J. Smith as the national edition of the '' Denver Catholic Register''. The ''Registers current owner is the Ete ...

'', the oldest national Catholic newspaper in the United States * ''

New Haven Register The ''New Haven Register'' is a daily newspaper published in New Haven, Connecticut. It is owned by Hearst Communications. The Register's main office is located at 100 Gando Drive in New Haven. The ''Register'' was established about 1812 an ...

'', Connecticut * ''

Orange County Register ''The Orange County Register'' is a paid daily newspaper published in California. The ''Register'', published in Orange County, California, is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digital Fiest/Media News subsidiaries. ...

'', Santa Ana, California * ''

Social Register The ''Social Register'' is a semi-annual publication in the United States that indexes the members of American high society. First published in the 1880s by newspaper columnist Louis Keller, it was later acquired by Malcolm Forbes. Since 2014, ...

'', one of a number of directories of prominent American families * ''

The Des Moines Register ''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction ...

'', Iowa * ''

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. NEHGS provides family history services through its staff, original scholarship, website,Register (art), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other * Registration acts (comics), fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics * ''

'', a technology news website

Documents, records and government

Accession Register In libraries, art galleries, museums and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to, and achieving initial control of, each acquisition. Assignment of accession numbers typically occurs at the point of accessioning or catalog ...

, identifiers assigned to each acquisition in a library or archive * Register, official student records kept by an academic institution's

Registrar A registrar is an official keeper of records made in a register. The term may refer to: Education * Registrar (education), an official in an academic institution who handles student records * Registrar of the University of Oxford, one of the se ...

Check register In accounting, a check register or checkbook register is a document, usually part of the general ledger, used to record financial transaction A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, ...

, booklet used to record account transactions *

Civil registration Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events ( births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in differ ...

, government recording of births, marriages, and deaths *

Company register A company register is a register of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under. A statistical business register has a different purpose than a company register. While a commercial/trade register serves a purpose of protection, account ...

, a record of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under *

Family register Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in differe ...

, a registry used to track information of genealogical or legal interest * Register (General Land Office), head of a district office which sold public lands under the United States' General Land Office system *

Register office (United Kingdom) A register office or The General Register Office, much more commonly but erroneously registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths, marriages, civil partnership, stillbirths and adoptions in England, ...

, where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded * Registration statement, a set of U.S. legal documents * Resident registration, government recording of place of residence * Summit register (or ''canister''), record of visitors to a mountain's summit *

Vehicle registration Motor vehicle registration is the registration of a motor vehicle with a government authority, either compulsory or otherwise. The purpose of motor vehicle registration is to establish a link between a vehicle and an owner or user of the vehicle. Th ...

, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority **

Aircraft registration An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and functions much lik ...

, registration of an aircraft with a government authority **

Vehicle registration plate A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate (American English), or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identificat ...

, metal or plastic plate attached to registered vehicle **

Watercraft registration Any vehicle used in or on water as well as underwater, including boats, ships, hovercraft and submarines, is a watercraft, also known as a water vessel or waterborne vessel. A watercraft usually has a propulsive capability (whether by sail, oar ...

, registration of a watercraft with a government authority (See § Maritime for examples) *

Voter registration In electoral systems, voter registration (or enrollment) is the requirement that a person otherwise eligible to vote must register (or enroll) on an electoral roll, which is usually a prerequisite for being entitled or permitted to vote. The r ...

, entry onto an electoral roll

Linguistics

Register (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow pr ...

, a form of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting *

Register (phonology) In phonology, a register, or pitch register, is a prosodic feature of syllables in certain languages in which tone, vowel phonation, glottalization or similar features depend upon one another. It occurs in Burmese, Vietnamese, Wu Chinese ...

, a sound system that combines tone with phonation * Vocal register, the range of tones in the human voice

Maritime

Ship registration Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented. The nationality allows a ship to travel internationally as it is proof of ownership of the vessel. Inter ...

, the process by which a ship is documented *

, compulsory registration of a watercraft with a government authority

Registry organizations

Indian Register of Shipping Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) is an internationally recognised, independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975. It is a public limited company incorporated under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act 1956 (Section 8 ...

, an independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975 * International Register of Shipping, an independent classification society *

Korean Register of Shipping The Korean Register (KR) is a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea offering verification and certification services for ships and marine structures in terms of design, construction and maintenance. Founded in 1960, the soc ...

, a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea *

Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and ...

, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society *

Norwegian International Ship Register Norwegian International Ship Register or NIS is a separate Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels aimed at competing with flags of convenience registers such as Panama and Liberia. Originally proposed by Erling Dekke Næss in 1984, it wa ...

, a Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels *

Norwegian Ship Register The Norwegian Ship Register ( no, Norsk Ordinært Skipsregister, NOR) is a domestic ship register for Norway. It is managed by the Norwegian Maritime Authority and is physically located in Bergen. The registry has about 12,000 ships, which include ...

, a domestic ship register for Norway *

Polish Register of Shipping Polish Register of Shipping, (in Polish: ''Polski Rejestr Statków S.A.''), also known as PRS, is an independent classification society established in 1936. It is a not-for-profit company working on the marine market, developing technical rules and ...

, an independent classification society established in 1936 *

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) maintains a ship register of the Russian Federation, based in Saint Petersburg, and is a marine classification society. Its activities aim to enhance safety of navigation, safety of life at sea, se ...

, an international classification society established in 1913

Other maritime uses

* USS ''Register'', several United States Navy ships * ''

Naval Vessel Register The ''Naval Vessel Register'' (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from t ...

'', the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Register (C programming language), a reserved word (keyword) and type modifier * Register (codebook), a codebook, a finite list of defined terms, used i.e. as a primary key in databases * Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition ** Status register, a collection of flag bits for a computer processor *

Processor register A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage, although some registers have specific hardware functions, and may be read-only or write-only. ...

, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information ** Quantum register, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register *

Register signaling In telecommunications, register signaling provides addressing information, such as the calling and/or called telephone number. R2 register signaling is an example. This is contrasted with line signaling Line signaling is a class of telecomm ...

, in telecommunications * Register.com, a domain registrar

Other technologies

Camera register For an interchangeable lens camera, the flange focal distance (FFD) (also known as the flange-to-film distance, flange focal depth, flange back distance (FBD), flange focal length (FFL), back focus or register, depending on the usage and source ...

or flange focal distance, distance from the mounting flange to the film plane of an interchangeable lens camera *

Cash register A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale. It is usually attached to a drawer for storing cash and other ...

, a device for recording cash transactions and storing cash * Image registration, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system *

Printing registration In color printing, print registration is the layering of printed patterns to form a multicolor pattern. Registration error is the "position misalignment in the overlapped patterns." Machine components such as the print cylinder, doctor blade ass ...

, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image * User registration, the process of becoming a

registered user A registered user is a user of a website, program, or other systems who has previously ''registered.'' Registered users normally provide some sort of credentials (such as a username or e-mail address, and a password) to the system in order to ...

Other uses

* Register (surname), a list of people with the surname *

Register, Georgia Register is a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States. The population was 175 at the 2010 census. The community was named after Frank Register, a pioneer citizen. Geography Register is located at (32.366495, -81.883543). According to the ...

, a town in The United States *

Register (air and heating) A register is a grille with moving parts, capable of being opened and closed and the air flow directed, which is part of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The placement and size of registers is critical to HVAC ...

, synonym of "grille", "return" in HVAC system