Meaning

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

noun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

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

originFrom Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

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