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registration|rɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. registrātiōn-em, n. of action f. registrāre to register. Cf. obs. F. registration (16th c.).]
1. a. The act of registering or recording.
clause of registration, in Sc. Law, a clause in deeds providing for their being properly registered.
1566Acts Parl. Scot. (1814) II. Chron. Table 4/1 Anent the registracione of letteris of newe infeftment confirmacion &c. Ibid. 33/2 Registratioun of ane appunctuament betuix my lord Governour and James Hammiltoun. c1680Dallas Stiles (1697) 705 Remember, that immediately before the Clause of Registration, ye insert the Faculty reserved by the Father to himself. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. ii. II. 471 Duties upon registration [have become] extremely common. 1836Act 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 86 §1 So much of the said Acts as relates to the Registration of Marriages. 1877Nature 23 Sept. 421 The registration of temperature is one of the most difficult of meteorological problems.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this; an entry made in a register. Also (occas. without article) ellipt. = registration number below.
1611Florio, Registratione, a registration, an enroulement, a recording. 1617Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 546/1 Oure said souerane Lord..ordanis the same registeris and registratiounes foirsaidis to be insert thairin. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 97 A Page is filled with such Registrations. 1741–2Stackhouse Hist. Bible viii. i. Objection (1752) II. 1260/1 Their [censors] Business was to make a Registration of all the Roman Citizens. 1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 31 A register book of wills..wherein registrations are made. 1973J. Pattinson Search Warrant vii. 111 A blue Chrysler... It had a New York registration. 1973‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xii. 152 His car..was a Ferrari but with British registration. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy x. 111 ‘The same registration!’ said Mann excitedly. ‘That makes four times the same number.’
c. attrib., as registration act, registration court, registration fee, registration law, etc.; (with reference to the registration of motor vehicles) registration book, registration number, registration plate.
1885Wilkinson Cox & Grady's Law of Registration 3 Persons acting as town clerks under the Parliamentary Registration Acts.
1922Michelin Guide Gt. Brit. iii. 711 When disposing of his car the motorist must fill in the name and address of the new owner in the registration book. 1968‘D. Rutherford’ Skin for Skin ii. 17 The Morris 1000 was parked at the kerbside... I had the registration book and the cover note ready.
1843Cox Registration of Voters Pref. 1 Practical experience in the registration courts.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 14 Certificates are required for transfers. Registration fee 2s. 6d. each deed and seller. 1967Post Office Guide 85 The registration fee must be paid by postage stamps affixed to the cover. 1977J. Bingham Marriage Bureau Murders ii. 24 There would be a down payment, a registration fee..and further annual payments.
1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 24 The Danish Government..passed two new measurement and registration laws.
1903Act 3 Edw. VII c. 36 §6 A person driving a motor car shall,..if an accident occur to any person,..or to any horse or vehicle..owing to the presence of the motor car on the road, stop and, if required, give his name and address, and also..the registration mark or number of the car. 1911Motor Man. (ed. 13) viii. 260 A registration number once issued cannot be transferred to another car. 1959M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement xii. 128 Are you the owner of a blue Riley saloon car, registration number GKR 692? 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn v. 39 The car was an important status symbol and large sums of money could be paid for particularly desirable registration numbers.
1956Registration plate [see all over advb. phr. 1 b]. 1974F. Nolan Oshawa Project xviii. 170 A black Volkswagen with a Darmstadt registration plate. 1977‘D. Cory’ Bennett v. 133 Relatively few cars, and fewer still with foreign registration plates.
2. In organ-playing: (see quot.). Also used with reference to other keyboard instruments, esp. the harpsichord.
1881Edin. Rev. Jan. 238 The awkward..word ‘registration’, which is the only expression we have for the study of effect and combination of tone on the organ, and means the same in regard to it that ‘orchestration’ means in regard to the orchestra. 1921G. A. Audsley Organ-Stops 1 Haphazard methods of registration must be shunned. 1961R. Russell in A. Baines Mus. Instr. through Ages iv. 80 Undue preoccupation with such things as registration..tends to obscure the fundamental musical requirements of the instrument [sc. the harpsichord]. 1966Listener 19 May 737/3 He is the most characterful harpsichord player since Landowska. Purists may question his frequent changes of registration. 1974Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 11/1 The excesses to which Bach's ‘Goldberg’ Variations can easily lend themselves were strictly avoided by George Malcolm..on the harpsichord... Registration was also kept within reasonable limits. 1976Gramophone May 1761/2 Chorzempa's [organ] registration balances happily with the orchestra.
3. The state of being in register (register n.1 11 b), or the action of obtaining this.
1890Jacobi Printing 178 The sole object of points is to obtain perfect registration in backing. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. June 364/1 The skilled attendant replaces them in the clip, one upon another, taking a little care to ensure perfect ‘registration’..and, lo! there is a finely painted lantern slide! 1949Electronics Dec. 69/2 The three color images in camera and picture tube must be very precisely aligned, both electrically and optically, to secure accurate registration. 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation iii. xix. 218 Background artists should know what registration manipulation is possible under the camera. 1962W. H. Stevens in G. A. T. Burdett Automatic Control Handbk. viii. 61 Separate panels are now cut from the multiple boards, and the fixing and component holes are drilled or punched... Registration of the holes with the circuit is achieved by means of the pilot holes. 1967Listener 30 Mar. 424/2 The three pictures are equally focused and accurately in registration one with the other. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps iii. 37 The line was printed in two operations as part of the tricolour production, and the very accurate registration required was not forthcoming. 1975J. B. Harley O.S. Maps i. 11 A second sheet of plastic material carrying an opaque coating is placed in exact registration with the first.
Hence regiˈstrational a.
1889Lancet 30 Nov. 1135 The above-named exceptional effort to obtain registrational accuracy. |