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n., Physical material, such as a paper, parchment, stone, clay, film or certain types of magnetic audio- and videotape, used for storage of analogue data. [Archives] 
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 A discrete aggregation of one type or class of analogue data (e.g., text, audio, video, image). [Archives] 
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 An analogue document that is treated and managed as a record. [Archives] 
 Any system handling analogue data or objects, as opposed to a digital system. [Sciences] 
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 Any system handling analogue data or ob