Register

The word **register** can have several meanings.  Very often it means: something that is written down so that there is a record (written proof) of something.  It may, for example be a list of names.

It can also be used as a verb: **to register**, i.e. to write something down in an official register (e.g. a special book), e.g. to register a birth, marriage or death.

**Registration** is the act of registering or being registered.

## Documents, records and government

- Aircraft registration, compulsory registration of an aircraft with a government authority
- Check register, booklet used to record account transactions
- Family register, a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest
- Regesta, a record of assets in ancient Rome, from which the English word _register_ is derived
- Registered mail, trackable mail service available in most countries
- Registered nurse
- Registered partnership, similar to a civil union
- Registered trademark symbol
- Registration statement, in the United States, a set of documents including a prospectus, that a company must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission before it proceeds with an initial public offering
- Summit register (or _canister_), record of visitors to a mountain's summit
- Vehicle registration, compulsory registration of a vehicle with a government authority
- Vehicle registration plate,  metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes
- Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll

## Technology and telecommunication

- Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
- FCC registration program, relating to telephone equipment in the United States
- Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
- Image registration, process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system
- Printing registration, in color printing, the correlating of colors in a single image
- Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing information
- Quantum register, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical processor register
- Register, an air-return vent or heating air duct in home and office heating.
- Register (photography), attribute of a lens mount system
- Register (sculpture), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
- Register signaling, in telecommunications
- Registered user, one who registers for a program or website and provides his or her credentials to access it
- Status register, a collection of flag bits for a micro-processor

## Linguistics

- Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
- Register (phonology), a language that combines tone with phonation
- Register (sociolinguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting

## Publications

- _The Des Moines Register_, Des Moines, Iowa newspaper
- _Federal Register_, public journal of the United States federal government
- _New Haven Register_, New Haven, Connecticut newspaper
- _The Orange County Register_, Santa Ana, California, newspaper
- _The Register_, genealogical journal and the official publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
- _The Register_ (originally _South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register_), first newspaper in South Australia
- _The Register_, technology news website
- _Sheffield Register_, a defunct Sheffield, England, newspaper

## Maritime

- Indian Register of Shipping
- International Register of Shipping
- Korean Register of Shipping
- Lloyd's Register
- Naval Vessel Register
- Norwegian International Ship Register
- Norwegian Ship Register
- Polish Register of Shipping
- Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
- USS _Register_, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

## Music

- Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, musical instrument, etc.
- Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to make the right sound for the piece of music

## Comics

- Registration acts (comics), fictional legislation that is a focus in Marvel Comics

## Places

- Register, Georgia, United States

## Related pages

- Incorporation (business)—includes registration of a corporation
- Licensure
- Registry (disambiguation)
- Registrar