What do you think what is record?
Our electronic definitions web site has answer for that as well:
is a collection of related items of data treated as a unit for processing (e.g. one
line of an invoice may form a record). This is called a logical record where
it is necessary to distinguish it from the record as held in computer storage
which may also include control information (the physical record).
Other electronic terms related to record
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