registry, n. ~ A division within an organization responsible for the recording, con- trol, and maintenance of records.
registryprinciple ~ see:original order
registrysystem, n.~ The policies and procedures that govern the recording, control, and maintenance of records within an organization through the use of registers, lists, and indexes.
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regulation, n.~ 1. The process of controlling something through rule or procedure. –
2. A rule that is issued by an authorized government agency and that has the force of law.
reintegration, n.~ The process of refiling materials that were misfiled or missing.
related term, n. ~ A cross-reference pointing to an associated concept of similar specificity in a hierarchy.
Notes:Related terms are part of the syndetic structure used in a thesaurus, especially one constructed using the ANSI Z39.19 standard, Guidelines for the Construction,Format,andManagementofMonolingualThesauri. Related terms are reciprocal to each other. For example, an entry for ‘camera’ may include a related-term reference to ‘photography’, in which case the entry for ‘photography’ would have a related-term reference to the entry for ‘camera’.
relationaldatabase, n.~ Information that has been organized, structured, and stored into tables of rows and columns (flat files) so that related data elements from dif- ferent tables can be manipulated and extracted for various purposes.
Notes:The relational database model was developed by Edgar Codd about 1970. Each table consists of named columns (attributes). A logical record consists of fields taken from related rows in different tables.