Register

A register is a device for storing data.

• Historically, a register was a sign or chalkboard onto which people would write cash transactions for later bookkeeping , often with chalk . It canalso be used to mean a paper register such as one would keep of a check book .
• To register a charity means to apply to the government for anon-profit organisation to be officially recognised as such, and thus gain more credibility and possible tax relief.
• In Britain , births , deaths , and marriages are registered at a registry office .
• The term is used in Australia and America as a short form for cashregister , a device for tracking retail sales and known to the British as a till. This name came into use because the cash register generally replacedearlier registers in use.
• In digital circuits , registers are variousdevices used to store and process data, implemented with multivibrators to form e.g. flip flops . In computing , a hardware register is a placeholder for information about some hardware condition, configuration, or buffer, whereas a processor register is a component inside a central processing unit for storing information, such as a memory address , or the inputs or results of a computation. The originof the name is similar.
• In music , register is the relative "height" or range of a note , set of pitches or pitch classes , melody , part, instrument or group ofinstruments.
• The Register [1] is atechnology news website.
• A register is a subset of a language used for a particularpurpose or in a particular social setting. For example, the average English speaker will likely adhere more closely to prescribed grammar , pronounce gerunds and present participles with a /N/sound, and refrain from using the word "ain't" when speaking in a formal setting, but the same person could violate all of thoserestrictions in an informal setting; these two varieties of speech are separate registers of English.
• A register is an outlet for forced air, usually as part of a forced air heating and coolingsystem.