record

Definition

An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

Etymology

From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).

Example Sentences

• "The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes."
• "The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime."
• "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."