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register [n]

1)	an official written record of names or events or transactions

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registry

2)	(music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments

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3)	a book in which names and transactions are listed

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record cross-file file accounting inventory payroll

4)	(computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind

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5)	an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

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air_duct

6)	a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

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regulator furnace

7)	a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

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cash_register

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cashbox adding_machine

register [v]

1)	record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

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enter registration enrollment registrant file patent enrol list book

2)	record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"

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file

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jurisprudence file data_file filing

3)	enroll to vote; "register for an election"

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enrol

4)	be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

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record

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comprehend

5)	indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

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read record show

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indicate adjustment indication meter_reading say show strike

6)	have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties

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cross-file

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campaign slate

7)	show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register"

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show record

8)	manipulate the registers of an organ

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play music registration

9)	send by registered mail; "I'd like to register this letter"

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mail

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enter into someone's consciousness; "Did this event register in your parents' minds?"

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record affect

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. One of a small number of high-speed memory locations in a computer's CPU. Registers differ from ordinary random access memory in several respects:

There are only a small number of registers (the "register set"), typically 32 in a modern processor though some, e.g. SPARC, have as many as 144. A register may be directly addressed with a few bits. In contrast, there are usually millions of words of main memory (RAM), requiring at least twenty bits to specify a memory location. Main memory locations are often specified indirectly, using an indirect addressing mode where the actual memory address is held in a register.

Registers are fast; typically, two registers can be read and a third written -- all in a single cycle. Memory is slower; a single access can require several cycles.

The limited size and high speed of the register set makes it one of the critical resources in most computer architectures. Register allocation, typically one phase of the back-end, controls the use of registers by a compiled program.

See also accumulator, FUBAR, orthogonal, register dancing, register allocation, register spilling.

2. An addressable location in a memory-mapped peripheral device. E.g. the transmit data register in a UART.

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