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Register may refer to:

In linguistics:

• Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
• Register (sociolinguistics), a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting
• Register (phonology), a language that combines tone with phonation

In computing:

• Hardware register, a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
• Processor register, a component inside a CPU for storing information

Publications:

• The Register, a technology news website
• The Register was South Australia's first newspaper. The first issue was printed in London in June 1836, and a year later the second issue was printed in a rush hut in Hindley Street in what is now called Register Place.
• The Des Moines Register, a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa
• New Haven Register, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut
• The Orange County Register, a newspaper in Santa Ana, California
• Sheffield Register, a defunct newspaper in Sheffield, South Yorkshire
• The Federal Register, a publication of the US Government

Other uses:

• Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc
• Register (sculpture), the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
• Register (photography), attribute of a lens mount system
• Register, Georgia, a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States
• Register signaling, which communicates the calling and/or called telephone number across a telephone line
• John Register, a contemporary American painter
• Cash register, a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
• Register of ships, for example Lloyd's Register
• In intravenous medical use, to register means to pull blood back into the syringe barrel to find, or show that the needle is in, a vein. Registering is also called flagging and blood so seen is called a 'flag' of blood or blood flag.

See also

• Registration
• Registrar
• Registry

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