record

To put down in permanent form for later reference.

Any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph.

The recordings (automated and/or manual) of evidence of activities performed or results achieved (e.g., forms, reports, test results), which serve as a basis for verifying that the organization and the information system are performing as intended. Also used to refer to units of related data fields (i.e., groups of data fields that can be accessed by a program and that contain the complete set of information on particular items).

All books, papers, maps, photographs, machine-readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States government under federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the government or because of the informational value of the data in them.

a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction

the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had

the sum of recognized accomplishments

an extreme attainment

sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove

a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted

a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone

anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events