Register

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Register may refer to:

• Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
• Register signaling, which communicates the calling and/or called telephone number across a telephone line
• Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
• Processor register, a component inside a CPU for storing information
• Register (linguistics), (see below on this page)
• Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc
• Register (sculpture), in sculpture, areas segmented with lines, used in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs, Kudurru boundary stones, etc.

Registration may refer to:

• Image registration, part of computer vision
• Printing registration, part of printing visible colour
• FCC registration program for telephone equipment
• Voter registration, entry onto an electoral roll
• Vehicle registration plate, also known as a license plate
• Aircraft registration
• Licensure required in occupations where maintenance of standards is required to protect public safety
• Registered mail: a trackable mail service available in most countries
• A financial procedure regulated in the US by the Securities Act of 1933
• Becoming, or applying to become, a registered user
• Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound
• Vocal registration, the system of registers within the human voice used in both speech and song

Linguistics:

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

Computing

• A keyword in the C and C++ languages which denotes that a variable should be located in a processor register

Places:

• Register, Georgia

People:

• John Register, a contemporary American painter

Publications:

• The Register, a technology news website
• Des Moines Register, a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa
• The New Haven Register, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut
• The Orange County Register, a newspaper in Santa Ana, California
• The Federal Register, a publication of the US Government

[edit] See also

• Registry, a formal record of information
• Registrar (disambiguation), an official charged with maintaining records
• Wikipedia registration