Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Register (music) A register is the range (music), range within pitch space of some music or often musical speech. It may describe a given pitch or pitch class (or set theory (music), set of them), a human voice or musical instrument (or group of them), or both, as ...

, 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

* ''

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 ...

'', 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'' (often also called El Reg) is a British Technology journalism, technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee (journalist), Mike Magee and John Lettice. The online newspaper's Nameplate_(publishing), masthead Logo, s ...

'', a technology news website

United States

* ''The Register'', one of the former names of ''The Westmoreland Republican'' * ''

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

'', a public journal of the United States federal government * '' Napa Valley Register'', Napa Valley, California * '' National Catholic Register'', 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 and i ...

'', Connecticut * ''

Orange County Register ''The Orange County Register'' is a paid daily List of newspapers in California, newspaper published in California. The ''Register'', published in Orange County, California, is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digit ...

'', 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, United States. 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 cab ...

'', Iowa * '' The New England Historical and Genealogical Register'', Boston, Massachusetts

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Register (art) In art and archaeology, sculpture and painting, a register is a horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines. Modern comic books typically u ...

, the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other *

Registration acts (comics) Superhero fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction examining the adventure fiction, adventures, personalities and ethics of costumed crime fighters known as superheroes, who often possess Superpower (ability), superhuman powers and battle si ...

, fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics

Documents, records and government

* Accession Register, identifiers assigned to each acquisition in a library or archive * Register, official student records kept by an academic institution's Registrar * Check register, booklet used to record account transactions *

Civil registration Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (Birth certificate, births, Marriage certificate, marriages, and Death certificate, deaths) of its citizens and Residency (domicile), residents. The resulting repos ...

, government recording of births, marriages, and deaths *

Company register A company register is a register of business organizations such as companies in the jurisdiction they operate under. Registration is normally mandated by the government of that jurisdiction. A company register serves a purpose of protection, acco ...

, a record of organizations in the jurisdiction they operate under * Family register, 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, commonly referred to unofficially as a registry office or registrar's office is an office in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries responsible for the civil registration ...

, where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded *

Registration statement In the United States, a registration statement is a set of documents, including a prospectus, which a company must file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before it proceeds with a public offering. As of May 2022, the United States ...

, a set of U.S. legal documents *

Resident registration A resident register is a government database which contains information on the current residence of persons. In countries where registration of residence is compulsory, the current place of residence must be reported to the registration office o ...

, 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. ...

, 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 li ...

, registration of an aircraft with a government authority **

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

, metal or plastic plate attached to registered vehicle *

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

, entry onto an electoral roll

Linguistics

Register (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, a register is a Variety (linguistics), variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English language, English speake ...

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

Vocal register A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. These registers include modal voice (or normal voice), vocal fry, falsetto, and the whistle register. Registers originate in lar ...

, the range of tones in the human voice *

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 Bai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Wu Chine ...

, a sound system that combines tone with phonation

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

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 o ...

, an independent ship classification society, founded in India in 1975 * International Register of Shipping, an independent classification society * Korean Register of Shipping, a not-for-profit classification society founded in South Korea *

Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (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 ...

, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society * Norwegian International Ship Register, a Norwegian ship register for Norwegian vessels * Norwegian Ship Register, a domestic ship register for Norway * Polish Register of Shipping, an independent classification society established in 1936 *

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS) () maintains a ship registration, ship register of the Russia, Russian Federation, based in Saint Petersburg, and is a marine classification society. Its activities aim to enhance safety of naviga ...

, 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 In digital electronics, especially computing, hardware registers are circuits typically composed of flip-flops, often with many characteristics similar to memory, such as: * Using an memory or port address to select a particular register in a ma ...

, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition **

Status register A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status Flag (computing), flag bits for a Central processing unit, processor. Examples of such registers include FLAGS register (computing), FLAGS register in the ...

, 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-onl ...

, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information **

Quantum register In quantum computing, a quantum register is a system comprising multiple qubits. It is the quantum analogue of the classical processor register. Quantum computers perform calculations by manipulating qubits within a quantum register. Definitio ...

, 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 A telephone number is the address of a Telecommunications, telecommunication endpoint, such as a telephone, in a ...

, in telecommunications * Register.com, a domain registrar

Other technologies

* Camera register 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 Cash register#Cash drawer, drawer fo ...

, a device for recording cash transactions and storing cash *

Image registration Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Data may be multiple photographs, data from different sensors, times, depths, or viewpoints. It is used in computer vision, medical imaging, mil ...

, 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 as ...

, 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, a town in The United States * Register (air and heating), synonym of "grille", "return" in HVAC system