several different contexts. In a
file, a "record" probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which may have any length and is terminated by some End
Of Line sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming
languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of several other types (C calls this a "struct"). [Computer and
Information Sciences] 
n., The documents constituting an authentic account of the proceedings before a co