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